Roy McFarland was delighted to take three points from Saturday's match against Oxford United, despite it being a poor performance in difficult conditions.

In the Oxford Mail he is quoted saying, "That's one of our worst performances of the season and we still managed to beat Oxford. They clearly deserve to be below us in the table if they can't beat us when we're having a terrible day."

In yesterday's Sunday Mirror he commented, "We have played a lot better than that and lost matches this season, but when you consider we had ten players on our injury list and I've had to patch the team up it's a great result to get us out of the bottom four."

Opposite number Denis Smith was angry about the way defender Phil Whelan's gifted United's second goal when his backpass got held up in a puddle and allowed John Hansen to nip in and score: "The last things we said, and we said it about 20 times, were: 'Do not pass back on any account, on this pitch. Do anything but pass back.' Phil Whelan passes back, we're two down and we then had a mountain to climb. It was stupid, an absolutely stupid goal to give away."

"There was an amazing amount of rain on the pitch," Smith continued in today's Oxford Mail. "They were talking about delaying the kick-off, about possibly even not playing. But you've got to play in all conditions and you've got to get on with it. We made bad mistakes which cost us, they made mistakes which didn't cost them.

"After we went one down, especially, we had a lot of the ball. In the second half, Cambridge didn't have a shot at goal. We had chances, but you've got to be brave and put them away. We didn't. "Cambridge can look at it as two points gifted rather than three points worked for."