Linighan joins United Oxford have signed Andy Linighan until the end of the season and he is likely to make his debut in defence tomorrow against Luton. If he does play Linighan will be the oldest player ever to have donned a Yellow shirt, even older than Mickey Lewis or Mike Ford. Linighan was Crystal  [ more ]

United lost again, this time to Wrexham by the odd goal in seven. Paul Tait scored his first goal at the Manor after 7 minutes to give the U's the lead before Darren Ferguson levelled direct from a free kick. In the second half Mark McGregor put Wrexham ahead and Martyn Chalk extended their lead  [ more ]

Pompey for the Guy Guy Whittingham has returned to Portsmouth, having been recalled from his loan prematurely. The reason being that Portsmouth manager Tony Pulis has been given four months leave to pursue his court action against Gillingham for wrongful dismissal. In Pulis's stead they have appointed Steve Claridge as caretaker boss and he wants  [ more ]

A big fat No! Following further discussions between Firoz Kassam and Steve Cotterill the Cheltenham boss has turned down the option of a move to United. It is believed that Kassam offered Cotterill double his current salary, £1 million to spend on new players plus a hefty bonus if he kept United up this season.  [ more ]

No Fear! (or Murphy too) Two of United's midfielders, Peter Fear and Matt Murphy, have had transfer requests accepted by the club today. Fear, made club captain at the start of the season, has struggled to get into the team, and even onto the bench recently, and is widely rumoured to have lubrication problems. He  [ more ]

Who's it going to be? Not Steve Cotterill – he's said that he's quite happy at Cheltenham, thank you very much, although United have approached him. Not Ian Atkins, thankfully, who United haven't approached due to the hundred grand or so that it would cost to buy out his contract. Possibly Steve Coppell, based on  [ more ]

Oh, bugger… Unsurprisingly United failed to beat the old enemy, going down 2-1. United fell behind after 20 minutes but in the second half loanee Guy Whittingham scored a debut goal following good work by Sam Ricketts in the 60th minute. With eleven minutes left the opposition scored the winner, dammit. New interim boss Mike  [ more ]

Guy's the guy United have signed Portsmouth's Guy Whittingham, initially on a one month loan. The 35 year old former Oxford City, Villa and Pompey striker is expected to start against swindon this Sunday. Meanwhile the good news is that Paul Powell has returned to training after his cruciate ligament injury.United are only expecting about  [ more ]

No braces on our trousers Apparently Oxford United approached former Fulham boss Paul Bracewell about the vacant manager's post at the club, but he had already agreed to take over at Halifax. This was one of Denis Smith's first moves in his new role as whatever he is supposed to be, and he is performing  [ more ]

Can't a Ford it Mike Ford's first radical decision as manager has been to axe Saturday's left back, which is a shame as he was one of our better players. Currently there is no other team news available for Sunday's game, which is no longer all-ticket. Fordy has revealed that Firoz Kassam wants United to  [ more ]