Healy strike gives Keane happy return

Nottm Forest 1 Sunderland 2: new signing struck in extra time to earn Premier League side place in Carling Cup third round

Curbishley’s side eventually come good

West Ham 4 Macclesfield 1: troubled start to season continues as West Ham need extra time to defeat League Two side

Derbyshire double sees Blackburn through

Carling Cup round-up: Blackburn and Fulham both had to come from behind to secure third round victories

Derby to stand by Jewell

Adam Pearson has dismissed suggestions the manager is on the verge of being sacked, despite 35 league games without a win

Portsmouth call off Primus move

Premier League club cancel veteran defender's move to Charlton Athletic after refusing to allow him to leave for more than six months

Premier League new boys crash out of cup

Carling Cup round-up: West Bromwich Albion and Hull City were two of the major casualties in last night's second round

Coppell insists Doyle will stay

The Reading manager says the Ireland forward will not leave the club before the transfer window closes on Monday

Champions League and Carling Cup previews

Arsenal midfielder Cesc Fabregas is fit after injury, plus the rest of the Champions League and Carling Cup team news

All the rest of the League One action

Lee Hughes scored a 17-minute hat-trick as Oldham thrashed Cheltenham to maintain their 100 per cent record

Fryatt brace sees Leicester home

Leicester 3 Tranmere 1: top-two place and the rehabilitation of Matty Fryatt give Milan Mandaric reason for optimism

Adebola returns to haunt Coventry

Coventry 0 Bristol City 3: former Coventry striker made a successful return to his old club, silencing the home supporters

All the rest of the Championship action

Alex McLeish, the manager, saluted his Birmingham players after they beat Barnsley to make it three victories out of three

Coca-Cola League Two round-up

Exeter ended a five-year wait for a league win at Bournemouth, whilst Brentford secured a second straight win at Barnet

McCall hails his Olympian Thorne

Bradford City 2 Rochdale 0: The forward headed the second goal as the hosts continue to look like promotion favourites

Loanee Lee Martin sets Forest alight

Nott'm Forest 3 Watford 2: Forest produced a dominant display over a limited but dogged – and formerly unbeaten – Watford

Veteran Phillips repays McLeish's faith

Birmingham 2 Barnsley 0: Kevin Phillips enjoyed a rare place in the starting line-up and offered swift thanks to his gaffer

Saints pile the misery on Derby

Derby lost 1-0 at home to Southampton to make it a record 35 league matches without a win. Plus a full round-up

Adebola comes back to haunt Coventry

Coventry 0 Bristol City 3: Dele Adebola popped up in another positive away performance, extending Bristol’s unbeaten start

Speed makes class count for United

Blackpool 1 Sheff Utd 3: championship contenders could not have hoped to make a greater statement of intent in openers

Palace survive as two go off

Crystal Palace 0 Burnley 0: the home side picked up two red cards on their way to a second successive goalless stalemate