Coca-Cola League Two round-up

Brett Pitman scored twice to take Bournemouth back to the top but was denied a hat-trick after missing an early penalty

‘Pitbull’ eyeing board games

Dutch hardman, who sees his future in the boardroom, says 2010 World Cup final will be between Holland and England

City pay the price for their timidity

Liverpool 2 Man City 2: Yossi Benayoun makes Mark Hughes’s wealthy pretenders pay for their lack of ambition at Anfield

Heskey helps Villa escape with a point

Burnley 1 Aston Villa 1: it was a measure of how far Owen Coyle’s battlers have come that Villa were delighted with this result

Bullard hits right note for battling Brown

Hull 3 West Ham 3: injury-plagued midfielder's outstanding display at last shows why club paid £5m for his services

Bowyer shrugs off lost sleep to grab winner

Birmingham 1 Fulham 0: benefiting from maturity of fatherhood, midfield firebrand is proving a key figure for Alex McLeish

Kakuta makes instant impact for Chelsea

Chelsea 4 Wolves 0: Frenchman at the centre of transfer controversy makes impressive debut in Stamford Bridge romp

Hill shows no sympathy after smash-and-grab

Dag & Redbridge 1 Rochdale 2: leaders dethroned in stunning turnaround which saw visitors score two goals in two minutes

Dods stoops to conquer as United see off Celtic

Dundee United 2 Celtic 1: Craig Levein’s side break ten-year hoodoo with late strikes from Jon Daly and Darren Dods

Rangers ease back to the SPL summit

Rangers 3 Kilmarnock 0: champions make light of the missing Awol Algerian defender Madjid Bougherra and coast to victory at Ibrox

Fifa bans Iraq from international football

The decision, taken after sectarian infighting among the country’s sport officials, deprives Iraqis of one of their few joys

Coca-Cola Championship round-up

Andy King's injury-time goal gave Leicester City a victory over Plymouth that confirmed their status as promotion candidates

Coca-Cola League One round-up

Ten-man Charlton battle back to earn a point at Yeovil while Wycombe end Millwall’s unbeaten home record with a stunning win

Di Matteo seeks Peace talks

West Brom 4 Bristol City 1 The Italian is looking to bolster his squad in January despite impressive start to season

Leeds show killer touch to burst Poyet’s bubble

Brighton 0 Leeds 3: leaders end winning run of their former assistant manager with purposeful perforamance at the Withdean

Mowbray needs an abrupt change in fortune

After eight defeats in 22 games it is little wonder increasing numbers of Celtic fans are starting to criticise their manager

Plucky Dundee rise to the challenge

Dundee 3 Inverness CT 2: trailing by two goals at half-time, victors mount spirited comeback to win Challenge Cup final

Falkirk see light at end of the tunnel

Falkirk 2 Hamilton 0: manager Eddie May the happiest man in Scotland after his side win their first SPL match of the season

Martínez: ‘I am not bothered by final score’

Premier League’s youngest manager refused to rage his players after final whistle and called 9-1 defeat by Spurs a freak

World Cup fears rise for James after injury

England goalkeeper fuels doubts about his chances of playing in South Africa after picking up calf injury in warm-up

France left polls apart by Henry handball

More than 80 per cent of French people do not believe their country deserves to be at next summer’s World Cup finals

Save this oasis of pleasure for Iraqis

No one can disagree that sporting associations should be free of political factions, but Iraqis will suffer after Fifa's ban