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Carroll on song as Magpies level up with Robins

Chris Hughton says games like this one teach him to take nothing for granted as he attempts to lead Newcastle back into the Premier League this season.

League round-up: Dorrans is the difference as Albion enjoy home comfort

Two early goals set West Bromwich Albion on their way to a tense 3-2 win over Preston North End as Roberto di Matteo's side strengthened their grip on the Championship's second automatic promotion place.

German thwarts returning Portuguese

There is no Flavio Briatore these days at Loftus Road, the Italian having left his post as chairman of Queens Park Rangers this season, some months after his enforced departure from Formula One. Paulo Sousa, now the Swansea City manager but in charge of QPR until last April, was therefore denied...

On song: West Brom's Graham Dorrans | Football

With the help of a fan, The Observer looks at an in-form Football League playerGRAHAM DORRANS WEST BROMThe lowdown Born in Glasgow, and beginning his career with Livingston, Dorrans won the Scottish First Division Player's Player of the Year award at the end of the 2007-08 season before Tony...

Bristol City 2-2 Newcastle

Newcastle score twice in four second-half minutes to stun Bristol City but their lead over West Brom at the top of the Championship is down to two points.

Millen coy on job aspirations

Keith Millen has refused to be drawn on whether he will apply for the Bristol City job on a full-time basis.

Doncaster 1-1 Sheffield Utd

So threadbare were Sheffield United's squad in the build-up to this match that Kevin Blackwell, their manager, found comedy was the only solution.On the morning of the game Blackwell played a clip from Ken Loach's immortal film Kes to his beleaguered team, showing the farcically autocratic reign of...

Bristol City 2 Newcastle United 2: match report

With their new man Keith Millen in charge, City started brightly but Andy Carroll ensured that they left Bristol with a point.