Darren Ambrose has become Birmingham’s fourth signing in five days after joining from Crystal Palace for an undisclosed fee.

Southampton secured promotion to the Barclays Premier League with a 4-0 win over Coventry City in front of a jubilant sell-out crowd at St Mary’s.

Crystal Palace 1 Cardiff 0

KAGISHO DIKGACOI’S late header secured a first home win for Palace since October and left Birmingham’s European adventurers empty-handed.

Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish is dreaming of a “fairytale” Carling Cup final against Liverpool.

Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson apologised to supporters after Crystal Palace claimed a stunning Carling Cup win at Old Trafford last night.

GLENN MURRAY headed the winner in extra time as Championship side Crystal Palace stunned Manchester United in the Carling Cup quarter-finals last night.

Manchester United 1 Crystal Palace 2 (after extra time)

MANCHESTER UNITED avoided further humiliation after their derby drubbing as they breezed through last night’s Carling Cup fourth round clash at Aldershot, winning 3-0.

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.

BARCELONA midfielder Andres Iniesta will be sidelined for around a month after suffering an injury during last night’s 2-2 Champions League draw with AC Milan at Camp Nou.

Crystal Palace 2 Wigan 1

QPR’s seemingly unstoppable march towards promotion from the npower Championship continued as they posted a workmanlike 1-0 win over Doncaster at the Keepmoat Stadium.

ROBBIE KEANE has sought to placate Wolves supporters who have accused him of turning his back on one of his old clubs by signing for their relegation rivals West Ham.

Millwall celebrated their return to the npower Championship by subjecting David James to a torrid afternoon in a 3-0 victory over Bristol City at Ashton Gate.

Crystal Palace made a blistering start to their npower Championship campaign after they raced into a 3-0 half-time lead over Leicester.

CRYSTAL PALACE face liquidation unless the consortium attempting to buy the stricken club can complete the deal by this afternoon.

AN emotional Paul Hart revealed he will start looking for work again next week after ending his short-term contract at Crystal Palace by keeping them in the Championship.

NEWCASTLE celebrated their promotion back to the Barclays Premier League with a 2-1 win at home to Sheffield United last night.

JOHN CAREW won and converted two late penalties to keep Aston Villa on course for a second Wembley final as they disposed of Crystal Palace in an FA Cup fifth round replay at Villa Park.

Aston Villa 3 Crystal Palace 1

A LATE equaliser, a stunning free kick, a plucky tale of underdogs who almost had their day and a typically forthright rant from Neil Warnock that left at least one of the match officials with blasted eardrums.

Crystal Palace 2 Aston Villa 2

Simon Cox’s second-half volley was enough to keep West Brom in the Coca-Cola Championship automatic promotion places with a 1-0 win at Plymouth.

Crystal Palace 3 Wolves 1

Leeds manager Simon Grayson admits it would take a “ridiculous” offer to tempt him to part company with Jermaine Beckford after the in-form striker helped secure an FA Cup fourth-round replay with Tottenham.

Wolves 2 Crystal Palace 2

NEWCASTLE can return to the top of the Championship tonight if they maintain their happy habit of winning Monday matches.

West Brom jumped to the top of the Coca-Cola Championship with an emphatic 4-1 win at home to Bristol City.

Crystal Palace 0 Manchester City 2

West Brom progressed in their FA Cup third round clash tonight as they defeated Peterborough 2-0 at London Road.

Kevin Phillips’ 21st goal of the season cancelled out Greg Halford’s first for Charlton and kept FA Cup semi-finalists West Brom in the hunt for automatic promotion from the Coca-Cola Championship.

JAMIE MCCOMBE continued his remarkable goalscoring run for Bristol City to help his side extend their lead at the top of the Coca-Cola Championship after a 1-1 draw at Charlton last night.

GREG HALFORD will not be the last player to be discarded by Roy Keane, but it might be the young defender, rather than the Sunderland manager, who has the last laugh this season.

Charlton 2 Crystal Palace 0

WEST Bromwich Albion beat Charlton 4-3 on penalties to book their place in the fourth round of the FA Cup.

CRAIG BEATTIE ensured West Brom remained hot on the heels of Championship leaders Watford with a late, but well-earned, winner at Leicester on Saturday.

Liverpool 2 Charlton 2

Charlton 0 Tottenham 2

Blackburn 4 Charlton 1

Charlton missed the chance to climb out of the Barclays Premiership drop zone as fellow relegation battlers Sheffield United earned a share of the spoils at The Valley.

CHARLTON picked up another point in their battle for Premiership survival following a goalless draw against Reading at The Valley – but will know it should have been more.

Charlton 0 Reading 0

Alan Pardew will do whatever it takes to give Charlton the edge in their battle for Barclays Premiership survival.