Carling Cup - Blades head first round upsets

Eurosport - Wed, 12 Aug 09:22:00 2009

Sheffield United, Derby County and Plymouth Argyle were all high-profile victims in the first round of the Carling Cup, but QPR and Norwich were amongst a clutch of comprehensive winners.

Kevin Blackwell at Wembley, FOOTBALL - 0

Kevin Blackwell's Blades lost 2-1 to League Two Port Vale at Bramall Lane as Marc Richards scored either side of Billy Sharp's 33rd-minute strike to produce perhaps the shock of the night.

Derby, semi-finalists last season, were also on the receiving end of an unexpected defeat. The Rams took the lead through Gary Teale at the Don Valley Stadium before Paul Warne and Kevin Ellison ensured Rotherham claimed victory.

Plymouth were defeated 2-1 by Gillingham while fellow Championship sides Ipswich and Watford were taken to extra time, Roy Keane's side requiring penalties to defeat Shrewsbury and The Hornets beating Barnet 2-0.

Having lost 7-1 to Colchester in a terrible defeat at the weekend, Bryan Gunn's Norwich responded in style as a Grant Holt hat-trick helped them secure a 4-0 win at Yeovil.

Wayne Routledge also scored three times in QPR's emphatic 5-0 win at Exeter and Neil Harris claimed another hat-trick in a 4-0 win for Millwall over Bournemouth.

Meanwhile, Notts County suffered their first defeat of the Sven Goran Eriksson era when losing 1-0 at home to Doncaster Rovers.

FULL RESULTS:

Crystal Palace 2-1 Torquay

Accrington Stanley 2-1 Walsall

Barnet 0-2 Watford

Brentford 0-1 Bristol City

Bristol Rovers 2-1 Aldershot

Bury 0-2 West Brom

Cardiff 3-1 Dagenham and Redbridge

Carlisle 1-0 Oldham

Cheltenham 1-2 Southend

Colchester 1-2 Leyton Orient

Crewe Alexandra 1-2 Blackpool

Exeter 0-5 QPR

Gillingham 2-1 Plymouth Argyle

Hereford 1-0 Charlton

Huddersfield 3-1 Stockport

Lincoln 0-1 Barnsley

Millwall 4-0 Bournemouth

MK Dons 1-4 Swindon

Notts County 0-1 Doncaster

Preston North End 5-1 Morecambe

Rotherham 2-1 Derby

Scunthorpe 2-1 Chesterfield

Sheffield United 1-2 Port Vale

Sheffield Wednesday 3-0 Rochdale

Shrewsbury 3-3 (2-4 after pens) Ipswich

Southampton 2-0 Northampton

Swansea 3-0 Brighton

Tranmere 4-0 Grimsby

Wycombe 0-4 Peterborough

Yeovil 0-4 Norwich

Reading 5-1 Burton Albion

Tom Adams / Eurosport

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  1. davidleyden ? what a knobhead you are, take ya face­ for a @#$%. ya talking @#$%

    From dl56uk, on Wed 12 Aug 5:51PM

  2. An i pod great. can i download all my dingle colliery­ brass band music onto it.

    From David, on Wed 12 Aug 5:06PM

  3. Serves the blades right for their recent transfer­ behaviour. What goes around comes around. Just hope­ they get relegated!

    From davidleyden, on Wed 12 Aug 10:26AM

  4. F'ukk. I read 11 comments and 3 of them are spam.­ The rest is as cr'ap as spam too. We are definitely­ in a page of lower grades of football

    From Half A Brain, on Wed 12 Aug 9:33AM

  5. Come on YAHOO why do you keep letting people use these­ pages to promote free iPods,play stations and make­ racist coments?
    As you claim to vet the messages its­ about time all this garbage stopped getting posted

    From Sandie, on Wed 12 Aug 8:48AM

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    From peter, on Wed 12 Aug 7:42AM
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    From Larry L, on Wed 12 Aug 2:12AM

  8. And Mr Blackwell reckons that the Blades are stronger­ this season than last. Wake up and smell the coffee­ Kevin. You.ve sold the best players - as usual - and­ brought in some dross unknowns. It happened when you­ sold Beattie to Stoke and it cost United automatic­ promotion. Now you get what you deserve.

    From shoreham622, on Wed 12 Aug 1:46AM

  9. I look for Sheffield United to file a claim with the FA­ implicating West Ham in this loss. Up the Hammers!!!

    From tomas.americano, on Wed 12 Aug 1:25AM
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    All these teams are totally garbage :) hahahahahahaha

    From Gers fan, on Wed 12 Aug 12:44AM

  11. Sheffield utd have had patchy start to season but­ Portvale will have confidence after this.

    From iancampbell11, on Tue 11 Aug 11:31PM

  12. Terriers to win

    From seer, on Tue 11 Aug 11:15PM
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