By Luke Baker

SUPPORT: Christian Ribeiro

AFTER the bitter news of Christian Ribeiro’s enforced retirement this week, Oxford boss Pep Clotet says that offering the defender a coaching role was the least the club could do.
Ribeiro was forced to call it quits aged just 27 after specialists advised that, if he continued to play through an ongoing knee problem, it might affect his ability to walk later in life.
The former Scunthorpe and Exeter man has been given a chance to continue coaching with the U’s while he rehabs and Clotet insists keeping him around will only benefit the c...