After an encouraging start to the campaign the U's have struggled in recent weeks and have dropped to within a point of the Championship relegation zone.
"The club would like to place on record its thanks to Des for everything he has done during his time with us and wish him well for the future," said a club statement.'Relegation always was a possibility' - AnalysisWhen a team has won only once in 15 games it might seem strange to talk about the outright shock that cascaded through Oxfordshire within moments of this news breaking.
I did a phone in when of the 100 or so calls, text messages and social media comments we received after Oxford were beaten at home by Sheffield Wednesday, a grand total of one called for a change of manager.
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