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Following a tumultuous week, a reassuringly dull draw. Let's start at the top. There will be few club owners held in higher regard ...

Suddenly, so much to cover. Off the pitch Starting at the top; no corporate takeover discussions were ever improved by a running comm...

When Donald Trump tried, and failed, to repeal Obamacare, he found it largely impossible to do. The problem was that the bill was structu...

Christmas is a great roosting of families. People gathering to spend a day in an enclosed space veiled in an unnaturally consistent, arti...

Tuesday saw a few Oxford fans scuttling to reframe the defeat to Northampton as some kind of moral victory. Partly, because it any exting...

The drop A big game, but at the same time, not. In the greater scheme of the season, this will have little significance but  it is ...

Inevitable? Yes, the longer a run goes on the more likely it is to end. Being unbeaten for 15 games isn’t normal, so we’ve been getting ...

The drop I don’t like the comparisons between Michael Appleton and Chris Wilder. It’s not a zero based game; just because one is goo...

The return of Chris Wilder to the Kassam was being billed by some as the game in which new-era Oxford would sweep away his new charges wit...

Our season finale against Northampton; such a strange fixture. On one level its significance is massive; Northampton's very survival is ...

I'm often asked on Twitter what went wrong with Chris Wilder and Oxford. It seems such weird scenario that a club on the brink of promot...

We could all feel it, the hex that was hanging over our heads. That dreaded feat that we actually weren't capable of winning at home. Bu...

The Northampton defeat surely extinguished any lingering hopes of a play-off place. So, let the post-mortem begin. There are so many factors...

One of the binds of being a blogger is that you spend all your time thinking about things to blog about. Match reports would be pretty eas...

Perhaps it was just fatigue brought on by Friday's office Christmas party, a night which inverts the world's fundamental structures ...

Up until now, there has been a pensive, let’s see how things go feel about our season. Suddenly the game, as it were, is on and the prospect...

My first ever driving lesson was in the deserted car park of the local industrial estate. I sat in the driver’s seat and my dad told me that...