Acting in hasteUnited today drew 1-1 with Millwall in a hastily arranged friendly game played at Iffley Road. The game was called because both teams had important reserves fixtures postponed this week and needed to give players match practice. United went 1-0 down but Dean Whitehead came off the substitutes' bench to equalise.The game was  [ more ]

McGonn!Ted McMinn this evening left United “by mutual consent”, following discussions with chairman Firoz Kassam. Rage Online expects that the discussions were along the following lines:FK: Ted, how much do you want to leave?TM: £xFK: You can have half of that.TM: Okay.This leaves both management positions at the club currently vacant, although we expect Ian  [ more ]

Oh Bloody Hull!United did it again! Fresh from the invigorating victory over Cheltenham last week United went and pissed on all our fireworks again by being totally humiliated at Hull City. City cruised to a 3-0 half-time lead and then thankfully took a breather, failing to add to the score in the second half. In  [ more ]

Was Wright wrong?Today's Sunday People contains more details of the allegations against Mark Wright concerning racist comments made against referee Joe Ross at the Scunthorpe game on October 20th. According to the report there are two comments that the FA investigated. The first, presumably the one calling into question Ross's parentage, was not found to  [ more ]

4-4-2 3-0Aah, that's better! United cruised to their biggest victory of the season against an on-form Cheltenham side thanks partly to a long overdue change of formation and partly to the desire to impress Ian Atkins. The scoring was opened as early as the 7th minute when Paul Moody was on hand to toe-poke the  [ more ]

Atkins in, Wright out?Another momentous day in United's history, and there have been so many of them over the past three or four years, saw Ian Atkins appointed as Director of Football for the rest of this season, and essentially taking over most of Mark Wright's managerial responsibilities. Atkins has had managerial spells at Exeter,  [ more ]

Wright suspendedOr has he been hung out to dry? A press statement released by United this evening has announced that Mark Wright has been suspended, on full pay, pending investigations into “the incidents” that took place during and after the Scunthorpe game last month. The incidents referred to, which cannot be called alleged racist abuse  [ more ]

Reserves win againUnited's second string did something that the first team seem unable to achieve. They not only scored a goal but then went on to win at Colchester this afternoon. United's goal came in the second half from a Jorden Holder penalty after Sam Ricketts was brought down. The bad news is that ROS  [ more ]

Orient depressUnited's misery continued in East London this evening as they were humbled 3-0 by Orient. Steve Watts opened the scoring in the 16th minute, beating Ian McCaldon at the near post and John Martin doubled the score five minutes later with a rasping shot. Jabo Ibehre finished the scoring in the 59th minute as  [ more ]

Orient previewUnited visit Brisbane Road tomorrow night for a match that may well prove to be make or break for Mark Wright. With only one win from the last eleven games it is imperative that United get something from this match which, if they lose, could leave them in a perilous position. Following the defeat  [ more ]