York City 1 Oxford United 1

Our Northern correspondent and our part time Mackem made the trip to KitKat Crescent, or Bootham Crescent as was (which reminds, a friend of mine's wife was born there apparently - but that is another tale for another time) - where was I, oh yes - two made the trip, to quote said Mackem:-

"Like the majority of you, I too have been extremely disappointed over the absence of an official match report from the York game, by D.

My report below will not do the game justice, however in the absence of a D missive, it’s probably the best you will get:

Match report:
If you missed the result we drew 1.1. – dull game, we didn’t deserve anything more."

There followed an update on the health and well being of our Northern correspondent - but we don't need to go into that here.

Link to BBC highlights here.

Oxford United 5 Grays Athletic 0

Absent - so missed the 5 goal defeat of Grays Athletic - however I can bore you, dear reader, with some stats. Last season the first 23 games yielded 30 points, an average of 1.3 a game; the second 23 games 52 points which is 2.26 a game - promotion form most would say; with 7 games to go to the half way point so far this season the team have amassed 39 points at an average of 2.44 a game - further improvement on the the impressive end to last season - I will not tempt fate with any predictions - draw your own conclusions, but reason enough to smile.

Highlights here - those glory hunters at the BBC have started publishing OUFC highlights on their site.

Barrow 1 Oxford United 1

This week saw me following the score via the BBC web site on my phone while attending a local book launch, a bloke "what I know from the pub" has written Rocking in Oxford and the launch was in The Cellar, a venue my 20 years in Oxford had not led me to - not even when it was The Corn Dolly. Live music was provided by veterans who appear in the book, The Falling Leaves can still rock out - web references to the band are scarce - mentioned in the Oxford Mail and on the odd web site - the book covers the era with personal anecdotes and a lot of photos from.

Oh - we drew - BBC Highlights here.