Burnley burn us up In an exciting game, ruined only by the pettiness of the Burnley office staff, United lost 3-2 after twice being ahead at Turf Moor. Steve Anthrobus scored only his second goal for the club after just five minutes, but Andy Payton equalised later in the first half from a penalty, conceded  [ more ]

United's luck returns Oxford somehow managed to scrape three points from an uninspiring encounter against Cambridge United at the Manor today. A goal seven minutes or so from time from Matt Murphy sealed the victory which up until then had looked extremely unlikely, despite Cambridge having been reduced to ten men after half an hour  [ more ]

United's game at Preston Oxford's visit to Deepdale, due to take place on Saturday 8th January, has been rearranged for Tuesday March 14th at 7.45. The home game against the same opposition had already been changed to Tuesday February 1st, also at 7.45. FESTIVE TYPE STUFFRage Online would like to wish all our readers Merry  [ more ]

Aldo's a Diamond geezer Blackpool's Martin Aldridge has joined Rushden & Diamonds on a three month loan deal. R&D manager Brian Talbot has this to say about the former United striker: “Aldridge is a proven goalscorer at Third Division, Second Division and First Division. He has had problems through his career in terms of the  [ more ]

Matty saves Foxes blushes Leicester City scraped past Hereford United at Filbert Street in their FA Cup 3rd round replay 2-1 after extra time. After going a goal down it was our very own Matty Elliott who scored the equaliser.

Rage Online readers Player of the Decade poll – results The winner of the Rage Online readers Player of the Decade poll was Joey Beauchamp Joey won a two-horse race from Matty Elliott by just 2%, receiving 38% of the votes to Matty's 36%. A long way back in third place was Paul Simpson, who  [ more ]

Offensive website Following an article in today's Oxford Mail in which Les Wells, the leader of the Romany community in Oxford, complained of racist material on an Oxford United website the site, Yellow Fellow's OUFC Site has had its link removed from the official Oxford United website in a move which met with the approval  [ more ]

Back to earth with a bump United's eleven game unbeaten run came to a crashing halt at Bournemouth, who tonked us 4-0 just a week after their 5-1 hammering at Notts County. Bournemouth's goals were scored by Steve Fletcher, a Stephen Henderson penalty conceded by Neil McGowan, Claus Jorgensen and James Hayter. United's starting line-up  [ more ]

Lager link Apparently United had a look at the possibility of signing Johnny Durnin from Portsmouth before he joined Carlisle on loan. Durnin is now 34 and so presumably no longer such a threat as when he was at the Manor before. Kev's back Kevin Francis is named in the eighteen player squad for tomorrow's  [ more ]

Preston pressed into February action The home game with Preston, due to take place last Saturday until both clubs reached the FA Cup third round, has been rescheduled for the evening of Tuesday February 1st, 2000. Wright gets his job After being strongly linked with the Oxford manager's post Mark Wright has now landed himself  [ more ]