Southampton took advantage of West Ham’s postponement to close the gap at the top of the npower Championship to just a point with a 2-0 win at home to Burnley.

Coventry 2 Brighton 0

SAMIR NASRI’S penalty took France to Euro 2012 after a tense evening against Bosnia & Herzegovina last night.

Spain 3 Scotland 1

Craig Levein’s injury worries means he will delay naming his Scotland team to play Spain in their crunch Euro 2012 Group I qualifier in Alicante until tomorrow morning.

Liechtenstein 0 Scotland 1

Darren Fletcher is the latest fitness doubt ahead of Scotland’s Euro 2012 qualifying double-header against Liechtenstein and Spain after being hit by illness.

Nottingham Forest boss Steve McClaren had blamed off-field “squabbling” for his side’s poor start in the npower Championship this week and they responded by going down without a fight at Burnley.

Brighton 3 Leeds 3

SCOTLAND captain Darren Fletcher has urged his team-mates not to allow their Euro 2012 qualification campaign to fizzle out despite the abject disappointment of their 2-2 draw against the Czech Republic on Saturday.

Steve Bruce is already facing tough questions over the Sunderland team he has rebuilt this summer after a 1-0 Carling Cup exit at Brighton followed hard on the heels of defeat by a similar margin at home to local rivals Newcastle just four days earlier.

NORWICH suffered a stunning 4-0 home defeat at the hands of npower League One leaders MK Dons as the three newly-promoted Premier League clubs exited the Carling Cup at the second-round stage last night.

ALEX FERGUSON may have come unstuck against the might of Barca, but his son Darren fared better as his Peterborough side struck three goals in seven minutes at Old Trafford yesterday to win the League One play-off and bounce straight back to the Championship at the first attempt.

Huddersfield 0 Peterborough 3

QPR midfielder Adel Taarabt has been named the Football League player of the year after firing Neil Warnock’s side to the top of the npower Championship.

Fulham 6 Peterborough 2

EVERTON crashed out of the Carling Cup at the third round stage last night, beaten 4-3 in a penalty shoot-out by League One strugglers Brentford after a 1-1 draw. Jermaine Beckford and Phil Jagielka failed from 12 yards for David Moyes’ men.

Tottenham 4 Peterborough 0

Blackburn 5 Peterborough 2

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND midfielder Steven Reid made a return to action last night — playing 75 minutes of Blackburn Rovers’ 1-0 away Carling Cup Third victory over Nottingham Forest before being replaced by Irish team-mate Keith Andrews.

Burnley’s brilliant Barclays Premier League start counted for nothing against Barnsley tonight as Hugo Colace’s late winner left Owen Coyle’s men on the wrong end of an upset.

Peterborough 2 Newcastle 0

Leicester were crowned League One champions today after a 2-0 win at Southend confirmed their promotion to the Championship.

Celtic boss Gordon Strachan has been told to stump up £15m if he wants to land Peterborough aces Craig Mackail-Smith, George Boyd and Aaron McLean.

West Brom 1 Peterborough 1

A LAST-GASP goal from Craig Mackail-Smith gave Peterborough a 1-0 win over Ryman Premier side AFC Hornchurch in the first round of the FA Cup yesterday.

Blue Square South side Havant and Waterlooville continued their amazing FA Cup adventure as they shocked Notts County in the second round.