GROUND HISTORY TRAVEL

Managed for the latter stages of the 2005/6 season by Jim Smith, Oxford United were one of a handful of teams who went into the final day that could have been relegated from League Two. However, needing a win at home to Leyton Orient to have the best chance of staying up, a 3-2 defeat condemned them to the drop.

Oxford are a side with a great deal of history within the Football League, and have on more than one occasion featured in the top flight of English football. Yet those days are a long way behind us now, and an immediate return in 2007 was thwarted by Exeter City in the playoffs.

In the 2008/9 campaign, Oxford looked on course for the playoffs until an indiscretion (and a dodgy fax machine, probably) robbed them of five points in what some considered to be a great injustice. Others didn't however, and the deduction ultimately meant that Oxford had to watch from 7th.

Oxford United were the side that entered the Football League in 2009/10 with Stevenage, and got back where they had always wanted to be. The resources at their disposal should ensure that a return to the Conference will be a fairly long way off.

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