Sam Hoskins scored the winner as Northampton moved into second place in League Two with a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Leyton Orient at Sixfields.Hoskins’ scruffy goal late in the first half was enough to secure a fifth successive home win and end Orient’s 11-game unbeaten run.Home goalkeeper Liam Roberts was a busy boy in the early exchanges as he tipped over a Tom James free-kick a...Full Story »

A late goal from Rhys Oates gave Mansfield only their second away league win of the season with a 2-1 victory at inconsistent Crawley.Oates settled the issue 17 minutes from time after James Tilley had cancelled out Ollie Hawkins’ first-half opener.The match marked the fourth anniversary of the tragic death of former Crawley head coach Dermot Drummy, and there was a minutes’ applause...Full Story »

Liverpool turned up the pressure on Premier League leaders Chelsea as they coasted to a second successive 4-0 victory at Anfield with Southampton the powerless victims on this occasion. Saints were dispatched as comfortably as Arsenal were a week ago as Jurgen Klopp’s side moved within a point of the top, in the process becoming the first top-flight team to score two or more goals for 1...Full Story »

Duncan Watmore scored a brilliant double as Chris Wilder’s Middlesbrough era sparked into life with a 2-1 win at Huddersfield.Boro secured a first win under new manager Wilder by ending Huddersfield’s five-game unbeaten run at the John Smith’s Stadium.Watmore struck twice early in the first half to give the visitors a healthy advantage.And Wilder’s men were seldom under t...Full Story »

Reading won 3-2 at Swansea as former England pair Andy Carroll and Danny Drinkwater rolled back the years with their first goals for the Royals.Carroll struck after Tom Dele-Bashiru had cancelled out Jamie Paterson’s quickfire Swansea opener that had set the tone of a frenetic Sky Bet Championship contest.Ryan Manning equalised at the start of the second half but Drinkwater’s first g...Full Story »

Substitute Lukas Jutkiewicz dragged Birmingham out of the mire by scoring the winner in the 1-0 victory over Blackpool at St Andrew’s.The 32-year-old striker netted in the 81st minute from only Birmingham’s second effort on target in a game of few chances.But it was a dream full debut for 17-year-old midfielder Jordan James, whose header teed Jutkiewicz up.Up until then Blackpool had...Full Story »

Jamie Murphy set up the equaliser and scored the winner as Hibernian came from behind to beat 10-man St Johnstone following a late turnaround at McDiarmid Park.Saints had led until the 83rd minute, but Murphy played in Kevin Nisbet to level before netting himself three minutes later following an expert assist from fellow substitute Scott Allan to seal a 2-1 victory.Saints captain Liam Gordon hea...Full Story »

England boss Sarina Wiegman saluted striker Ellen White as she marked her 100th cap with a winning goal to close in on Kelly Smith’s record.White’s 40th-minute strike secured a 1-0 Women’s World Cup qualifying victory over Austria at the Stadium of Light and took her to 45 goals, just one behind Smith.Wiegman said: “It’s just an incredible achievement. If you have 1...Full Story »

Fulham boss Marco Silva insists referee Chris Kavanagh cost his team victory after Preston scored a controversial equaliser in their 1-1 draw at Deepdale.Ched Evans bundled in for the hosts with 18 minutes to go but Fulham’s players were adamant there was a handball in the build-up.Tim Ream had put Fulham ahead early in the first half with his first goal in almost four years but they were ...Full Story »

Mikel Arteta hailed Arsenal’s young Gunners for repaying his “real trust” to hit back from their Liverpool humbling and sink Newcastle 2-0.Bukayo Saka netted the opener only to hobble out with a thigh problem, before his replacement Gabriel Martinelli delivered a sumptuous second.Arsenal were hammered 4-0 by Liverpool at Anfield last weekend, leading to a difficult week’s...Full Story »