Weatherstone proclaims innocence – magistrates disagree United defender Ross Weatherstone was fined £500 today for his partin a racist attack on an Asian taxi driver in which the caboverturned. Taxi driver Zafran Naeem's passengers called him “Bloody Paki” before kicking in the glass partition and trying to strangle him over a fare dispute.Mr Naeem, who  [ more ]

A case of two halves Ross Weatherstone appeared in court today on a charge of assaulting a Reading taxi driver. Allegedly the driver picked up Weatherstone and some of his friends from Reading station to take them to Woodcote, but turned back when the passengers began to racially abuse him. The glass partition seperating the  [ more ]

Something to aspire to United have announced that their Centre of Excellence is to be sponsored by Spire Telecommunications/STL, based in Witney, for a “five figure” sum.

Not so glorious United lost their first game of the season at home to Peterborough, a 30th minute goal from Dave Farrell enough to dispel any pre-season optimism that might have been lingering in dark corners of the Manor. All of Oxford's new signings (except Jimmy Glass) were in the starting line-up, although Lee Jarman  [ more ]

Pre-Season nerves It's the time when every body and their cat starts making totally biased and inaccurate predictions as to how their team is going to perform over the coming ten months or so. Not surprisingly, given last season's ineptitude, many pundits and fans have United earmarked for relegation, whilst we here at Rage Online  [ more ]

Ceefax sees facts Old news, but it's fairly quiet otherwise: the BBC's text service Ceefax predicts on its South East sports pages that Oxford will be relegated this season (along with Luton, probably). Their analysis is that the long saga of court cases and the judicial review have taken their toll emotionally and financially and  [ more ]

Glass act United have signed former swindon 'keeper Jimmy Glass on a one month contract as temporary cover for Richard Knight. Glass is best remembered by most people as the scorer of the last minute goal against Plymouth for Carlisle which kept them in the league and relegated Scarborough, although he's best remembered by swindon  [ more ]

Slough of despond Oxford's disappointing pre-season continued at Wexham Park in the hot August sunshine as they failed once again to beat supposedly inferior opposition. Ryman Premier League Slough Town came back from a goal down to draw 1-1 with United. Paul Powell had put the U's ahead from the penalty spot after Manny Omoyinmi  [ more ]

Rico signs up Jon Richardson today joined United from Exeter City on a two year contract. Rico, as he's known to City fans, was the Grecians' longest serving player, having been at St James' Park for six seasons and making over 250 appearances, with the last three seasons as club captain. The 24 year old  [ more ]

Centre-Back attack Denis Smith has claimed that he will almost certainly be signing a new centre-back tomorrow, and it will be neither Steve Davis nor Mark Watson. According to Smith a player on whom he has been keeping his eye for some time has now become available and he intends to sign him. Where this  [ more ]