OXFORD United opened their Conference campaign with a win thanks to a wonder goal by Andy Burgess.
The U’s took the lead in the 16th minute through a penalty after Rob Duffy was poll-axed by the Halifax keeper. Duffy dusted himself down and sent the keeper the wrong way.
Halifax rarely troubled the United defence and failed to produce a shot of note all game. Oxford sealed their win in the 70th minute after Burgess struck a magnificent shot from 30 yards out into the top corner. It was a truly wonderful goal and was just rewards for Burgess who has been impressive throughout pre-season.
Jim Smith’s side now travel to Dagenham and Redbridge tomorrow full of confidence and in search of their first away win in the Conference for 44 years.
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good luck to the Us this season. although I am an Oxford based Spurs fan, I plan to watch oxford with my 5 yr old son on a regular basis as I wish to encorage him to also follow his local team, so he is aware there is football away from man u, chelsea etc. However I was shocked th have to pay £26 (16 +10) for us to watch them play Portsmouth, in a half empty stadium, for £22 we could have watched Spurs v Real Sociadad at white hart lane a week later. I am only to aware this is a business and have no real problem with my ticket price, but surely children are the future of this club and greater incentives should be made to parents to make the effort to get their kids to follow their local team and not watch the premier teams on sky. I would like to add my tickets were purchased from the ticket office in person as nobody would answer the phone and the website was unavailable, for future reference is this a regular occurence or a one off.
All useful comments and thank you for the support. I am sure the club would be interested in hearing your thoughts…maybe drop them an e-mail too? Details can be found on the main site http://www.oufc.co.uk
C’mon you yellows!
Thanks for your support I am convinced we will win the league this season and am dleighted with the results thus far!
nice to see such a good crowd for the halifax game hope this continues, there seems to still be a feel good factor from the takeover dispite the relegation,