Abbey goes Shrimping United have offloaded Ben Abbey to third division Southend on a free transfer. Abbey, who joined from Crawley Town for £30,000 last season as a desperation measure, but only made a handful of substitution appearances, scored just the one goal, at home to Morecambe in the FA Cup. It was clear from  [ more ]

How now Paul Powell? Mike Ford has confirmed that Paul Powell, who completed 70 minutes of yesterday's reserve match at Reading, will not be in the squad for the first team game at the Madejski on Saturday. Although Powell felt no ill-effects of his cruciate ligament injury, received at Walsall back on August 29th, he  [ more ]

United get two new players Or, rather, two current players have recovered from their injuries. Paul Powell and Rob Folland both successfully came through the reserves' 1-1 draw at Reading this afternoon to bring themselves into contention for the United squad at the same venue this Saturday. Powell played for seventy minutes and Folland (of  [ more ]

Same old story United went down to their seventh successive game without a win 2-0 at home to Wigan tonight. Wigan's first goal came after eleven minutes from Scott Green and the second was added two minutes from time by Andy Liddell. Sam Ricketts replaced Neil McGowan at left wingback, whilst Peter Fear was the  [ more ]

Kinnear ain't 'kin 'ere! Joe Kinnear's first day on the job turned out to be something of an anti-climax as it was revealed on Radio Oxford that he won't actually be taking up his position at the club until tomorrow. He will arrive at the Manor prior to the Wigan game, meet up with Mike  [ more ]

Rotherham bother 'em United went down to their eighth successive away League defeat (all seven for this season), 3-1 at Millmoor yesterday. United's goal was a scorching Derek Lilley volley to bring the U's back into the game when they were already 2-0 down following goals from Paul Warne and Kevin Watson. Warne scored again  [ more ]

Squaddies A squad of 17 is travelling up to South Yorkshire for tomorrow's clash against Rotherham at Millmoor. It is the same sixteen that featured against Luton, less Paul Tait who broke his leg, but plus the Weatherstone brothers, Ross and Simon. Also called up is Matt Murphy, who scored twice for the reserves this  [ more ]

Minchery is go! Work to start on October 30th In a statement read out this morning Firoz Kassam announced that he has signed a contract with Birse Stadia for them to complete the Minchery Farm stadium in time for the start of next season at a cost of £15 million. Birse took possession of the  [ more ]

Tait's unlucky break Paul Tait's injury is worse than at first feared, and it appears that he has a hairline fracture of his tibula. This means that, just as he is starting to play his best football since arriving from Birmingham, he faces another lengthy spell on the sidelines. Tait joins Paul Powell and Rage  [ more ]

Shooting blanks Oxford and Luton fought out a goalless draw at the Manor tonight; a point which leaves the U's still rooted to the foot of the table. Andy Linighan made his debut for United to become the club's oldest ever player, replacing Matt Murphy from Saturday's starting line-up in the centre of a five-man  [ more ]