My piece from the Sunday paper
Striker Kitson met a beautifully flighted 93rd minute cross from right back David Hunt to nod in his fourth goal of the season from six yards.nodded in a 93rd minute winner and keep Oxford on top of the table - he then revealed he is calling time on his playing career.
Former Portsmouth and Stoke hit man Kitson won promotion to the Premier League with Reading in 2006 and said:
"I think that at the end of this season that might be enough for me. I'll be 34 in January and you reach a stage when you feel that's enough. I'm not saying I have nothing to prove, but in my opinion I didn't achieve enough. I just think there's so much more for me to do.
"I'd like to see what I can do in another environment. You never know though, I might get an offer to do something in football, if someone's mad enough, but we'll see.'
Kitson will now miss the next two games after picking up his tenth booking of the season, but also feels the squad needs strengthening for the promotion push. He said:
"I've only got a few games left to play professionally and now I've got to miss some of them. I'm annoyed with myself. You'd think I would've learned by now.
"I think we need a couple of players, but they've got to be the right quality. Historically - at any level - when you get yourself into this position, why not? Why not try and achieve something? It would be great to sign off with a promotion."
Kitson also paid tribute to Hunt and revealed:
"That cross was no fluke. David was out their after training hitting 60 or 70 crosses for Asa Hall and Johnny Mullins so they could practice their heading and each one was just as good as the one he put over for me."
Hit man James Constable had opened the scoring with his eighth of the campaign in the eighth minute.
Midfielder Danny Rose's deep cross was nodded back across the face of goal by central defender Johnny Mullins and Constable fired in a volley on the spin.
But striker Rhys Murphy stunned Oxford seconds before the break when he lifted a shot over keeper Ryan Clarke from the left angle of them box for his eleventh goal of the season.
Winger Ryan Williams should have scored in the 65th minute, but defender Ferni Ilesanmi threw himself in front of the shot to make the block.
Keeper Chris Lewington was forced to get down and make two saves from winger Josh Ruffels and another from Constable as Oxford controlled the game in the first twenty minutes.
Daggers only effort before Murphy's equaliser came on the half hour when Clarke was forced to palm away a stinging low shot from impressive former West Ham winger Zavon Hines.
Oxford boss Chris Wilder was happy with the win and said:
"We've got some first class characters here and we just kept on going. I was definitely disappointed with their goal which was self inflicted and I barked at them for thirty seconds at half time, but the mark of a good side is how they react in situations like that."
"It's a competitive league as seen yet again with Dagenham who are an unfashionable side, but they gave it a right go. It was a very tough game and they probably deserved to beat us because it was a containment game for us at times. We were sloppy with our defending and they out muscled us at times"
Dagenham manager Wayne Burnett said:
"I don't think we deserved to win the game, but coming so far - and they scored in the 91st minute - it's hard to take."
... and today's clipping
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