Oxford United have now equalled their seven-game winning home league run at the end of the 1984-5 season, which helped them clinch the second division title under Jim Smith.

That run, stretching through the whole of March and April 1985, brought the following wins: 1-0 v Wimbledon, 3-0 v Manchester City, 1-0 v Grimsby, 1-0 v Middlesbrough, 3-0 v Huddersfield, 5-2 v Oldham and 1-0 v Shrewsbury.

The current winning streak is: 5-1 v Ebbsfleet United, 2-0 v Salisbury City, 1-0 v Altrincham, 2-1 v Forest Green Rovers, 2-1 v Lewes, 3-0 v Barrow and 1-0 v Mansfield.

So if the U’s beat Torquay, it will be their best winning run at home since earlier in that glorious 1984-5 campaign when they rattled off ten straight victories in the league at the Manor Ground.

CRAIG Nelthorpe confessed his celebration dance after scoring against Mansfield was planned, but had a bit of improvisation in it as well.

“We’d been practising that celebration all week – me, Adam (Murray) and Batty (Damian Batt), so it was good to score because if one of us was going to score, we were always going to do it.

“It was off (the film) Step Up 2, I think, but obviously not the worm – I’ve just created that! It was nice to just enjoy it really.”

And Nelthorpe saluted James Constable’s part in the goal, for picking him out.

He said: “I ran from quite a distance, so it was good to get on the end of it and for him to square it, because I’d have been a bit cheesed off if he hadn’t, having run all that way!

“I went on loan to Mansfield at the beginning of the season, so I knew most of the lads, and it was good to play against them.”