Alan Pardew refused to blame Newcastle’s limp FA Cup display at Brighton on their midweek trip to Tenerife.

Coventry 2 Brighton 0

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.

Brighton 3 Leeds 3

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.

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

Fulham 6 Peterborough 2

HARRY REDKNAPP is backing his Croatian connection to land another famous double for Tottenham.

Peterborough 2 Newcastle 0

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.

DARREN FERGUSON admitted that his managerial education was just beginning and this was a painful lesson.