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Funeral March?

March 19, 2001

Funeral March? Our gratitude to Relegatarian for providing this analysis.United can still be relegated before the start of April. Obviously we need to lose all three remaining games, but as two are away and the other is Rotherham, who may very well be top by Saturday, that shouldn't prove beyond us. If we achieve that,  more ]

Record breakers

March 18, 2001

Record breakers Our thanks to contributor Andy Howland for the statistical information in this little look at the records that United are on course for breaking this season.Details of the worst performances by teams in our Division (Third Division 1958-92, Second Division 1992-2000): no club played as many as 46 League games until 1950-51 and  more ]

Wells on?

March 17, 2001

Wells on? According to Les Wells he and Firoz Kassam had agreed terms for Wells' land at Minchery Farm in return for Wells dropping his two legal actions. The deal needed to be ratified by Oxford City Council for it to work as the legal cases are actually between Wells and the Council. Wells claimed  more ]

Luton tomorrow

March 16, 2001

Luton tomorrow United travel to Kenilworth Road tomorrow to face one of the few teams unable to do the double over them, thanks to the 0-0 draw at the Manor on 17th October. United have Chris Hackett back from suspension and Andy Scott recovered from the injury he picked up at Wrexham so there is  more ]

Raising the roof

March 15, 2001

Raising the roof Following an inspection of the Minchery Farm site this morning by our intrepid reporter, Rage Online can reveal that 90% of the South Stand roof cladding and 50% of the West Stand is in place. All of the terrace blocks in the North Stand are in position. There seems to be plenty  more ]

The Call Up

March 13, 2001

The Call Up United striker Phil Gray has been called up to the Northern Ireland squad for their forthcoming World Cup qualifiers against the Czech Republic in Ballymena on March 23rd and against Bulgaria in Sofia on March 27th. This means he will miss United's games at home to Rotherham and away at Cambridge United.  more ]

Reading between the lines

March 12, 2001

Reading between the lines The United malaise struck the reserves this afternoon as they went down 2-0 at Reading, who scored through Darius Henderson and Keith Jones. Morons Apparently the police have positively identified some of those responsible for throwing missiles onto the pitch at Saturday's match. Rage Online trusts that, if those arrested are  more ]

Hiss, Boo, and Kempout

March 10, 2001

Hiss, Boo, and Kempout Another home defeat, this time 2-0, leaves United 22 points from safety with 36 points left to play for. The starting eleven was only different from Wrexham by the inclusion of Steve Anthrobus for the injured Andy Scott, although the U's were reduced to nine men with the dismissals of Dean  more ]

Tomorrow is the game that most United supporters want to win over all others. Never mind that the …

March 9, 2001

Tomorrow is the game that most United supporters want to win over all others. Never mind that the U's are going down without a fight, if we can beat swindon the pill won't seem quite as bitter. If as a result of their defeat those red red robins go bob bob bobbing into the third  more ]

Doom approaches day by day

March 8, 2001

Doom approaches day by day Following Port Vale's 1-0 victory at Colchester last night United are now 20 points below the fifth from bottom team (swindon). With a maximum 39 points available to United from their remaining 13 games there remains a very slight possibility that the U's may yet stay up. Of course, realistically,  more ]