Tommy Leigh’s extra-time penalty broke National League side Boreham Wood’s hearts and sealed Accrington a fourth-round tie at home to Leeds with a 1-0 win in the Emirates FA Cup.The game was goalless after 90 minutes with League One Stanley, 39 places higher in the football pyramid, creating the more clear cut chances.Shaun Whalley headed into Nathan Ashmore’s arms from close r...Full Story »

Tom Bayliss’ late goal gave Shrewsbury their third win in a row in League One, as they snatched a 1-0 victory at struggling MK Dons.It was a smash-and-grab from the Shrews, who had little of the ball throughout at Stadium MK, but Steve Cotterill’s side are up to ninth in the table, five points off the play-off places.MK Dons started the brighter and it needed a good save from Shrewsb...Full Story »

Jon Dahl Tomasson described the dismissal of Blackburn captain Daniel Ayala as “harsh” after seeing his side earn a first Sky Bet Championship draw of the season in their 28th game.The centre-back earned a second yellow card for holding back Bristol City’s Nahki Wells in the 74th minute, having already been booked for a first-half foul.Rovers had taken a 54th-minute lead when B...Full Story »

Welshman Tom Bradshaw increased Cardiff City’s relegation fears and kept Millwall in the Championship play-off mix with the only goal of the game in south Wales.Cardiff fans staged a protest before kick-off calling for owner Vincent Tan to sell the club and they have now gone 11 games without a win in all competitions.Caretaker manager Dean Whitehead could not halt the Bluebirds’ sli...Full Story »

Gillingham chalked up back-to-back victories in League Two for the first time this season after winning 2-0 at fellow strugglers Colchester United.David Tutonda and Tom Nichols were on target as the visitors built on last week’s win over Hartlepool.Junior Tchamadeu fired into the side netting early on for Colchester and Noah Chilvers also went close for the hosts when his 25-yard strike wa...Full Story »

A powerful second-half performance lifted Hartlepool out of the relegation places as they saw off nine-man Rochdale 2-0.Goals from strike partners Josh Umerah and Jack Hamilton, after Dale’s Ethan Ebanks-Landell was red-carded, were enough to dump Dale to the bottom of the table.After a flat opening half, with neither side offering an attacking threat, the game sparked into life on 51 minu...Full Story »

Joao Ferreira rescued a point for Watford in a 1-1 draw with Rotherham but the result did little to help their automatic promotion chances.In addition to Ferreira’s superb equaliser from 20 yards, which cancelled out Shane Ferguson’s first-half opener, Watford clipped the visitors’ woodwork on two occasions on what proved to be a frustrating afternoon for the Vicarage Road crow...Full Story »

Paul Heckingbottom is confident Sheffield United will not let a transfer embargo derail their bid for automatic promotion from the Championship.The English Football League confirmed the Blades had been placed under an embargo, after defaulting on a payment to another club, a matter of hours before Heckingbottom’s second-placed side opened up a 14-point cushion on third-placed Watford with ...Full Story »

Manager Neil Wood praised his “hungry” Salford side as their League Two promotion bid was boosted by a 2-0 victory over Sutton.A first half Conor McAleny double fired the Ammies to a second successive victory as they rose to fifth in the table.The in-form Salford striker opened the scoring early on with a precise low finish as the hosts assumed control.McAleny added a second after a ...Full Story »

Cardiff have sacked manager Mark Hudson following a 1-1 draw at home against Sky Bet Championship bottom club Wigan which left them just above the relegation zone.The Bluebirds took the lead in the 82nd minute through Callum O’Dowda and looked set for a crucial three points only to concede an equaliser in the sixth minute of added time when Latics striker Will Keane poked home.Hudson was v...Full Story »

Sky Bet League Two leaders Leyton Orient were held to a 0-0 draw by play-off hopefuls Barrow at Brisbane Road and finished with 10 men after Tom James was dismissed in added time.The visitors proved positively doughty opponents and deserved their point. They had the ball in the net after 17 minutes only for Billy Waters to be ruled offside.Barrow goalkeeper Paul Farman was then forced into two-f...Full Story »

Newcastle ask Man Utd for McTominay (Keith Downie) Sky Sports reporter Keith Downie has told GiveMeSport that the Magpies recently enquired about signing Scott McTominay. Newcastle now have the sort of money to go and sign. players from the Premier League's biggest clubs but it doesn't sound as though this move is likely. Indeed, Downie explained: "I think there was an enquiry made for McTo...Full Story »

Paul Heckingbottom hailed Daniel Jebbison for seizing his opportunity after the 19-year-old set Sheffield United on their way to a 2-0 win at Millwall in the FA Cup third round.Jebbison was handed a start for the first time since the opening day of the season and responded by scoring the Blades’ opener at The Den, coolly slotting home midway through the first half after latching on to an e...Full Story »

Caolan Lavery scored a hat-trick as troubled Scunthorpe ended an 11-match winless run with a 3-0 victory against Maidenhead.The result was not enough to lift the Iron off the bottom of the National League table but a first win since October was certainly something to celebrate.Scunthorpe had hit the post and seen one cleared off the line before Lavery scored the opener in the 29th minute after g...Full Story »

Paul Heckingbottom insisted Sheffield United fully deserved their point after John Egan’s last-gasp equaliser in a 1-1 draw at QPR.Ilias Chair’s 11th-minute goal – after a mistake by Egan – looked like giving Rangers their first home win under Neil Critchley.But Egan netted with seconds remaining for second-placed United, leaving them five rather than six points behind Sk...Full Story »

Chesterfield moved to within four points of second-placed Wrexham with a comfortable 4-1 win over bottom-side Scunthorpe despite having to come from behind.The visitors took the lead in the 20th minute when Cameron Wilson followed up to score after Alfie Beestin’s shot was parried by goalkeeper Ross Fitzsimons.However, the Spireites were level within seven minutes thanks to Armando Dobra&r...Full Story »

Tom Bradshaw’s double helped Millwall climb into the Championship play-off places with a comfortable 3-0 win over relegation-threatened Rotherham.The Lions striker took just four minutes to get the hosts off to a New Year flier before Cameron Humphreys’ own goal and Bradshaw’s late second capped a miserable afternoon for the Millers.The home side dominated the opening period af...Full Story »

Blackburn head coach Jon Dahl Tomasson was pleased his depleted side bounced back from consecutive Championship defeats to beat Cardiff 1-0.There was not much between the two sides in a scrappy encounter, summed up by Bradley Dack’s winner in the 48th minute which found the bottom left corner via a wicked deflection.It was reward for their endeavour, though Cardiff will rue Mark Harris and...Full Story »

Southampton will begin 2023 at the foot of the Premier League after a last-gasp Joao Palhinha goal condemned them to a 2-1 defeat at Fulham.James Ward-Prowse thought he had secured a first point under new Saints boss Nathan Jones after scoring a free-kick to cancel out his own own-goal.But Palhinha struck two minutes from time with a far-post header to leave Southampton rock bottom.Fulham, meanw...Full Story »

Slaven Bilic read the riot act to his players after their 4-0 hammering at Swansea and warned he will not “carry any passengers” in his side.Watford went down to their second defeat in a week, having lost 2-0 at home to Millwall on Boxing Day, but it was the manner of the latest setback that troubled Bilic.“It was a bit embarrassing to be fair – I have a bad feeling in my...Full Story »