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  • "
    village lad wrote:
    It Would have been so easy for IL to have sacked Chris on a few occasions previously but he stuck by him and this is how Chris repays IL? CW's tactics and brand of football, especially at home, was shocking and any other club would have booted out their manager a long time ago.

    IL's attitude to CW seems to have been "You deliver for us, and we'll deliver for you", which seems fair enough to me.

    See ya Chris. Cheers for the day at Wembley, but you have took OUFC as far as you possibly could
    I do Like your points and agree wholeheartedly particularly your middle paragraph. CW knew what was expected of him and the team and maybe he didn't have confidence in himself or his team to deliver. I do wish him well though and if he does go up the A43 I hope he saves them from relegation."
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Ian Lenagan: Wilder has quit as Oxford United manager

6:23pm Saturday 25th January 2014 in Headlines Oxford Mail: Photograph of the Author By David Pritchard , Chief Sports Reporter covering Oxford United. Follow us on twitter: @oxfordmailoufc. Call me on 01865 425458

Oxford Mail: Wilder resigns as Oxford United manager Wilder resigns as Oxford United manager

CHRIS Wilder has resigned as Oxford United manager, according to chairman Ian Lenagan.

The 46-year-old is believed to have informed the players of his decision minutes after their 1-0 win against Torquay United this afternoon.

It has come after Lenagan rejected an approach from Northampton Town yesterday to speak with Wilder about their vacant manager's position.

The U's chairman has not received a resignation letter, something he described as "bizarre" but has asked Mickey Lewis to act as caretaker boss.

Lenagan said: "My understanding is Chris Wilder has in the last half an hour told the players that he is going and will not be back at Oxford after today.

"That is all I've heard. I'm not sure, I've just looked in his office and he's not there, but it would appear that he has resigned.

"It seems a very peculiar way to do it, but he has told the players.

"He told me yesterday and the day before that he would resign at the end of the match."

Wilder took over at United in December 2008 and his five-year tenure made him the third longest serving manager in English football's top four divisions.

When he took over the club were in the bottom half of the Conference and he went on to lead them back into the Football League after a play-off final victory at Wembley in 2010.

Today's win moved United up to sixth in League Two.

Lenagan said: "Chris has done a good job for us and this is a strange way to conclude the matter at the very end.

"But he obviously feels very strongly that with five and a bit months to go on his contract he wants the security of somewhere else and the fact that he probably believes he would get offered the Northampton job has triggered this sequence of events."

The U's chairman hinted there may still be the possibility of legal action, but would take time to assess the position.

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