United visit Field Mill on Saturday in a game that could prove to be the fixture on which their whole season hangs. Mansfield are currently six points behind Oxford, but with two games in hand. A win would give the Us some much-needed breathing space, while a defeat would leave the way open for Mansfield,  [ more ]

United ended their run of six winless games with a comfortable win over an appalling Cheltenham side this evening. The narrowness of the 1-0 scoreline, gained thanks to an Andy Crosby penalty after 25 minutes awarded for something or other, shouldn’t detract from the fact that United dominated the game and Andy Woodman in goal  [ more ]

United welcome near(ish) neighbours Cheltenham Town to the KasStad tomorrow, hot on the heels of two successive defeats. Twelfth-placed Cheltenham, meanwhile, were only denied victory at top of the league Doncaster by a last minute equaliser on Saturday. United desperately need to win this match to restore confidence and get their promotion challenge back on  [ more ]

United tumbled out of the automatic promotion places this afternoon, with a display at Carlisle that was more reminiscent of a side at the other end of the table. That lowly position belongs to Carlisle, 92nd club in the league, who were still able to outperform United to beat them 2-0. Tom Cowan opened the  [ more ]

United travel all the way oop north to play bottom of the table Carlisle on Saturday, probably wishing that they didn’t have to. Carlisle beat 4th placed Huddersfield 1-0 on Tuesday at Brunton Park, to leave them unbeaten in their last seven home games. Oxford, on the other hand, haven’t won in their last five  [ more ]

First the good news: Huddersfield’s game in hand over Oxford United ended in defeat as Peter Duffield scored on his debut to give bottom club Carlisle victory this evening. Now the bad news: United are Carlisle’s next victims, this Saturday. Elsewhere in the division Cheltenham, who visit the KasStad tomorrow week, lost 2-1 at Darlington,  [ more ]

United’s unbeaten home record finally collapsed, two games short of the club’s record, thanks to a goal after 41 minutes from Huddersfield captain, and Oxford fans’ boo-boy, Efe Sodje. The cheating Sodje headed home a routine corner after some hesitant United defending with Huddersfield’s only real chance in the first half. Prior to that Oxford  [ more ]

Fourth-placed Huddersfield visit third-placed United this Saturday, in a game that is probably the biggest threat to Oxford’s unbeaten home record yet. Huddersfield are just three points behind United, with a game in hand, but have a far inferior goal difference, for now. Coming on the back of three disappointing draws, Oxford will be desperate  [ more ]

This evening United continued on their charge towards the play-offs as they could only draw against a well-organised, but pretty average, York City. The goalless scoreline doesn’t tell the complete story, as Oxford hit the woodwork four times, all in the second half, to York’s one, in the first half. First Julian Alsop headed against  [ more ]

Oxford have signed Coventry City’s defensive midfielder Barry Quinn on a one month loan deal. Quinn is 24 and in his 70+ appearances for the Sky Blues he has scored precisely no goals. Last year he was told that he was surplus to requirements at Coventry, for financial reasons, but he was kept on their  [ more ]