Hull City’s 2-0 win at Cheltenham has given them a four point gap above second-placed Doncaster, who lost 2-0 at home to sixth-placed Lincoln last night, and takes them six points ahead of United, who now have two games in hand on the leaders. Mansfield beat Southend 1-0 at Field Mill to close up to  [ more ]

Oxford United Reserves 0 Northampton Town Reserves 1 Northampton temporarily put the anticipation surrounding Sunday’s cup tie against Manchester United to one side to record a 1-0 win over the Us’ second string in a friendly at Iffley Road. The main controversy of a scrappy meeting was the decision to play only 40 minutes each  [ more ]

Hull Coasters completed the double over Raging Fever yesterday morning. Like the main event in the afternoon this game was scoreless at half-time, but the away side collapsed in the second half as a combination of age, lethargy and the previous night’s socialising got the better of them. The conditions weren’t exactly conducive to free-flowing  [ more ]

A second half defensive collapse allowed Hull to inflict Oxford’s second defeat of the season and end United’s 17 match unbeaten run. The teams went in level at the break after a fairly even first half, but 13 minutes into the second period United were undone by a surging run from Stuart Elliot, who beat  [ more ]

United visit league leaders Hull City on Saturday, hoping to complete their second double of the season, or at least avoiding a defeat anyway. Many people are touting this as a make-or-break fixture, at least as far as the championship is concerned, but with over 20 games still to play this is far from the  [ more ]

Derek Townsley looks almost certain to be joining up with Gretna Town, of the Scottish Third Division, where former United loanee Lee Maddison currently plays. Townsley has been out of favour at United for some time, and never lived up to his pre-season promise. On Radio Oxford last Saturday, when questioned about Townsley’s possible move,  [ more ]

In tonight’s games in Division Three Lincoln City were held to a goalless draw by fourth-bottom Cheltenham at Sincil Bank, and Macclesfield beat Bristol Rovers 2-1 at Moss Rose. These results mean that Lincoln move into sixth place, above Huddersfield on goal difference and Rovers stay 11th, eleven points below the play-off zone. Third Division  [ more ]

United were held to a goalless draw, just the third game they have failed to win at home, by Lincoln City, who Oxford have beaten on all the previous four meetings. Oxford had the better chances, and most of the possession, but were unable to break down Lincoln’s stubborn resistance. The visitors didn’t have their  [ more ]

Lincoln City visit Oxford tomorrow in an attempt to halt the league leaders’ 16 league match unbeaten run. Lincoln themselves are in 6th position and with the promise of another large gate this should be a decent match. United have no new injury worries after Tuesday’s draw with Swansea, and so only Andy Scott (who  [ more ]

United had their first tricky test of the new year this evening as they visited Swansea. Oxford showed that they can overcome Manager of the Month curses and adverse crowd conditions by holding the hosts to a 0-0 draw, continuing their unbeaten run to 16 games, four short of the club record. Neither side came  [ more ]