Manager Chris Wilder said he was delighted for the supporters that his Oxford United team were able to sign off in style on Saturday.

They won their last home game of the season with a fine second-half comeback to beat struggling Lincoln 2-1.

But croaky-voiced Wilder admitted after the match that he might have to go in search of a few throat lozenges after delivering a few stern words at half-time.

The U’s trailed at the break and might easily have gone further behind before they got their act together to claim victory thanks to goals from Asa Hall and Tom Craddock.

It meant the traditional lap of honour after the final home game was greeted with smiles from the management, players and fans alike.

“For the season we’ve had, and the support we’ve had, which has been really excellent as you could see from the scenes at the end, I wanted us to win,” he said. “They’ve backed us to the hilt.

“We had a few words at half-time – I expect I need to go and see the doctor afterwards to get some tablets for my throat because we lifted a few of them. As we’ve always said, it’s about what’s happening now.

“We needed to give the support something to shout about, and we hadn’t done that – the first half was totally unacceptable.

“They’d turned up in numbers to support the team and I wanted to watch my team go out and produce a performance.”

Lincoln, who played a 4-4-1-1 system with Ali Fuseini sat in behind main striker Ashley Grimes and causing problems, had stunned United by taking the lead after just five minutes.

“We shot ourselves in the foot,” Wilder said. “We started off OK then they get into our half once and scored.

“That’s happened too many times where teams have done us on the break and scored against the run of play.

“We knew what was going to happen. We knew with the shape they set up, and their personnel, that they were going to make it difficult for us, but even more so with the calamitous goal to start with.

“That gave them a tremendous lift and just made it doubly difficult for us.

“But we got ourselves back into the game and began passing it and moving it, and standards improved.

“Second half we were better, we were more direct and played quicker. The formation changed a bit, which suited us, and in the end ran out, I think, worthy winners.

“Alfie Potter and Tommy Craddock were better and Steve MacLean came on and added something.”