The purchase of the Kassam Stadium is vital to the future of Oxford United Football Club. No football club can really press on unless it has the commercial asset of a stadium.

It is never easy for Oxford United. Having gone through the mill over many years to find land for a stadium and then finance its building, the club now has a stadium, but finds that it is going to have to pay for it again.

There is something not quite right there, but it is no fault of the current owners. It is encouraging to see the vision they are now putting into a stadium purchase.

We wish them well with that, and, just as importantly, we wish United well in their equally critical game against Exeter tonight.