Down amongst the dead men United went down 4-2 at Peterborough's London Road tonight, despite taking the lead through a header from stand-in captain Matt Murphy in the 19th minute. It took Posh only eight minutes to equalise, with a header from David Oldfield and after a further four minutes the home side was in  [ more ]

On This Day On January 28th 1964 The U's actually beat Brentford 2-1 in a fourth round FA Cup replay at Griffin Park thanks to two goals from Bill Calder. On this day in 1966 United welcomed swindon to the Manor for the first time. Unfortunately they refused to show their hosts due respect and  [ more ]

Optimism confounded United lost 1-0 at home to Colchester this afternoon thanks to a goal on the stroke of half-time by Joseph Dunne. As predicted the only change from the line-up which beat Walsall was the one enforced by Jon Richardson's suspension, Lee Jarman stepping in to the captain's shoes, with Matt Murphy stepping into  [ more ]

Weatherstone stays not Hayes Simon Weatherstone has rejected a loan move to Conference outfit Hayes, presumably believing that he's better than that and that he has a place to fight for with United. This may be true, but he has yet to show it since he burst onto the scene spectacularly in Malcolm Shotton's first  [ more ]

Whither Weatherstone? United's allegedly technically gifted young forward Simon Weatherstone is currently pondering a loan move to Conference club Hayes. Weatherstone isn't figuring in David Kemp's plans and kemp has told the 21 year old that he needs to be getting regular first team games elsewhere. If Weatherstone accepts the move he should make his  [ more ]

Briefs Today is former United director Desmond Morris's 73rd birthday. Happy birthday Des.The court case to consider the Les Wells caution over his alleged right of way, due to commence yesterday, has been moved to tomorrow due to a failure of one of the parties to provide evidence on time.Former United player Steve Perryman has  [ more ]

Reserves report An improved second half performance saw United's reserves continue their winning streak, thanks to the introduction of Jamie Cook. It had looked bad for the U's in the first half when Chris Tate beat a static Oxford defence to score. Thankfully the second half wasn't nearly as dire as United dominated. Manny Omoyinmi  [ more ]

Match off United's match at Bournemouth today was called off due to a frozen pitch. At least this means that Jermaine Defoe can go and break his record (or not) against some other poor whipping-boys… United's next match is Saturday 27th at home to Colchester (watch out for the Rage On sellers if you missed  [ more ]

Bournemouth tomorrow United travel to Dean Court having a change from last week's winning side enforced on them by Jon Richardson's suspension. United's captain received his fifth booking during the defeat at Brentford and opens the way for a possible return to the side of Ian McGuckin. McGuckin played all 90 minutes of the reserves  [ more ]

More new blood? United boss David Kemp has confirmed that there will be no new players before Saturday's match at Bournemouth, but he did say that someone has been lined up to join the club next week, although he stopped short of saying in which position. There will be a match preview on here tomorrow,  [ more ]