Several United players are getting closer to suspension under the totting-up procedure – though after 15 games the same can probably be said of a lot of players up and down the country.

James Constable collected his fourth yellow card at Barrow last Saturday, and fellow striker Matt Green is also on four.

Players get a one-match ban when they accumulate five bookings.

Just behind the two strikers are Adam Murray and Luke Foster, on three each, while Mark Creighton and Jamie Cook are on two.

If my calculations are correct (and I might have missed the odd one) , I make it that hard-tackling midfielder Dannie Bulman has yet to pick up a single yellow, which shows how well he must time his tackles.

Chris Wilder was very unhappy with the booking Constable got at Holker Street.

He said: “Beano’s booking on Saturday was ridiculous.

“The ref blew, and he kicked it all in one moment – and then he was shown the yellow card for kicking the ball away.

“I would like to appeal against it, but we can’t.”

The draw for the fourth qualifying round of the FA Cup, the stage at which Oxford United enter, is made just before noon on Monday.

The round is regionalised, and how good it would be if both United and Oxford City were in it.

OXVOX are hoping to sign up their 500th member tomorrow when they man stalls around the Kassam Stadium before the game against Grays.

The supporters’ trust are donating 25 per cent of new membership fees to the 12th Man Fund, until the end of the year.