Fortress KasStad?United's excellent home form since the appointment of Ian Atkins continued today at the expense of Swansea City. United came from behind to win 2-1, with all the goals coming in the first half. Jonathan Coates gave the visitors the lead in the 11th minute when he latched onto a through ball and rounded  [ more ]

Swansea previewUnited take on Swansea at the Kassam Stadium tomorrow in a game that will probably prove slightly harder than the Us' last home game, against Halifax. Swansea share the dubious distinction, with Northampton, of having the double done over them by Oxford in last season's disastrous relegation campaign. United will be without midfielder Dave  [ more ]

Blues twos give U's twos bluesMillwall's reserves beat United's second team 2-1 at Court Place Farm. Millwall took an early lead with a shot direct from a free kick and United equalised through Phil Gray. However the Lions won the game when their striker hit the bar but netted the rebound.Martin Thomas lasted the full  [ more ]

Shrews give Us Tues bluesA goal in the 29th minute from Darren Moss was enough to take the points for Shrewsbury in a dire game in dire conditions at Gay Meadow. Needless to say, the winning goal was created by Nigel Jemson. United only had one clear chance, when Jamie Brooks was through on the  [ more ]

Game offUnited's match at Shrewsbury was postponed at 12.00 today due to a waterlogged pitch. It has been rearranged for this Tuesday 8th January. The pools panel thoughtfully awarded the game to the home side, which was nice of them.United remain 16th following Torquay's 4-1 home defeat by Kidderminster and Swansea's goalless draw with Lincoln  [ more ]

Game on (or not)Following a 1 o'clock pitch inspection this afternoon there will be a further inspection at 10 tomorrow morning. The frost at Gay Meadow has started to thaw but it depends on the overnight temperature as to whether the game will go ahead or not.United will probably field an unchanged team from the  [ more ]

Arse!United's reserves lost 4-1 to a very strong Arsenal reserve side at the Gunners' Colney training ground today. Oxford's goal was scored by Jamie Brooks, who played the full 90 minutes, when Arsenal were 2-0 up. The good news for Oxford is that Joey Beauchamp played for 80 minutes before being replaced by Norman Sylla,  [ more ]

Happy New Year!United's game at Rushden has fallen foul of the Winter weather, being a late postponement due to a frozen pitch. In fact the only Division Three game to have survived the weather is Torquay's match at home to Cheltenham.Meanwhile Mark Wright is favourite to take over the managerial vacancy at Conference side Chester  [ more ]

In one of the most disappointing results of the season so far Luton came from behind to beat United in front of the largest crowd of the season so far. Andy Scott, who always seems to score against the Hatters, gave Oxford the lead in the 20th minute after some good work by Paul Powell.  [ more ]

Torquay the talkIan Atkins' half-time chat worked wonders at Plainmoor as United came back from a two goal deficit to level the scores and then come from behind for a second time, for the second successive game, to eventually share the points. Torquay took the lead after 19 minutes through David Graham and Greg Goodridge  [ more ]