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The original 12th Man purchase, Jamie Cook, has left the club by mutual consent.

Cook re-joined United from Crawley at the beginning of last season, the purchase funded by the fans 12th Man fund. He scored an amazing goal against Luton in his 2nd home debut, but generally failed to have an impact in Chris Wilder’s team. Read the rest of this entry »

Oxford United are 0ff to Wembley after a fine 2-0 win over Rushden & Diamonds at the KasStad today. Second half goals from Matt Green & James Constable gave U’s the win, and a 3-1 victory on aggregate. United go on to play York City at Wembley for a place in the Football League next season.

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Oxford United went to Rushden & Diamonds last night in the first leg of the play-off semi-final, and were unlucky to be held to a draw.

Going with a strong forward line United started well in front of an away following that outnumbered the home fans. United withstood some rough challenges in the first half, including a blatant elbow on Jack Midson that was only punished by a yellow card. U’s took the lead on the half-hour, James Constable turning and lashing in a shot after extracting himself from Clist.

Rushden started the second half more brightly, but U’s were still better…right up until the ref changed the game. Adam Chapman won the ball in midfield before being un-ceremoniously dragged to the ground from behind by Tomlin. The Rushden players reacted with less disbelief at the decision and broke forward, the ball running to Byrne who shot high into the roof of the net.

So the match goes into the second leg evenly balanced. United will be backed by a sold-out crowd, Rushden still have some tickets left of their 1309 allocation though.

The Oxford United ticket office sold an amazing number of tickets today (well done to the staff at the club) for both legs of the play-off semi-finals.

For the first leg at Nene Park, U’s have only 2 days to sell 2800 tickets. At the end of day one, with only season ticket holders and an hour of member sales, 1588 have been sold. This leaves approx 1200 to go on open sale tomorrow (Wednesday) from 9.30am.

The Bank Holiday Monday 2nd leg looks set to be a sell out too. U’s have sold 9202 tickets for this game, which given the 1309 given to Rushden, plus the segregation, doesn’t leave many…