Match reports

Carlisle United have it all to do again after floodlight failure at Grays

Published 19 November 2008

ssloma FA Cup First Round Replay: Grays Athletic 1, United 0 (abandoned after 20 minutes): Greg Abbott’s unbeaten run continues. Carlisle United supporters with a love for the country’s highways get another 660-mile round trip to stick in the diary.

Carlisle kids cruise through to FA Youth Cup third round

Published 18 November 2008

Accrington Stanley 0 Carlisle Utd 3: Carlisle United's youth team stole a march on their senior counterparts by cruising through their own cup tie last night.

Brighton win makes it lucky thirteen for Carlisle United

Published 17 November 2008

Carlisle Utd 3 Brighton 1: All this, and the pasta still to come. Greg Abbott’s assault on the sluggish eating habits of his playing staff begins in earnest today, when the era of the greasy sandwich is declared over at Brunton Park.

Carlisle United face replay after failing to beat non-league Grays Athletic

Published 10 November 2008

FA Cup round one: Carlisle United 1 Grays Athletic 1: Greg Abbott can’t avoid Grays just now, whether that’s a reference to the non-league team who earned another pot at Carlisle United on Saturday, or the things which showed up on his head when he glanced in the mirror a few hours later, having learned the precise scale of his rescue assignment.

Carlisle United lose the battle at Stockport

Published 3 November 2008

Stockport 3 Carlisle United 0: This was a war zone, alright, to quote Carlisle’s assistant manager Greg Abbott from the eve of combat.

Hartlepool defeat leaves Carlisle United with one point from possible 27

Published 1 November 2008

Carlisle United 0 Hartlepool 1: As if the grim task of chalking up defeats hasn’t induced stat-fatigue in the average Carlisle United supporter, here’s another batch of numbers which are making increasingly bleak reading.

Colchester hammer woeful Carlisle United

Published 27 October 2008

Colchester 5 Carlisle United 0: News just in: Carlisle United are to be nationalised in the public interest. It is the final remaining hope of salvation for the Blues in October 2008, which can now be recorded as the month they entered their own Great Depression.

Woeful Carlisle United slump to another defeat at Hereford

Published 22 October 2008

Hereford 1 Carlisle United 0: The realisation thumped home just as Hereford’s journeymen strikers were making traffic cones out of the visiting defenders on this desolate night in League One which dragged just 2,300 people out of their homes.

Carlisle United stung by late Peterborough equaliser

Published 20 October 2008

Carlisle Utd 3 Peterborough 3: Memo to Cumbria Constabulary: gather your finest law-enforcing minds around a table and brainstorm as many ways of getting up Graham Kavanagh’s nose as possible. Carlisle United’s season, no less, may depend on your efforts.

Carlisle United on worst losing run for five years

Published 13 October 2008

MK Dons 3 Carlisle United 1: John Ward wouldn’t entertain our use of the word in the post-match questioning, so let’s hurl it down onto the page and see if it looks inappropriate there.

Rochdale dump Carlisle United out of cup in penalty shoot-out

Published 8 October 2008

Rochdale 2 Carlisle United 2 (4-3 pens): Plenty of new problems have landed on John Ward’s desk these past few weeks, but this was an old glitch flashing up on the screen.

Carlisle United in league freefall after fourth straight defeat

Published 6 October 2008

Carlisle United 1 Tranmere Rovers 2: Cumbria's climate on Saturday appeared to have vaulted autumn and landed in winter with a miserable thump.

Carlisle slump to third straight league defeat after trip to Walsall

Published 4 October 2008

Walsall 2 Carlisle United 1: Carlisle United have a couple of weeks, maximum, to challenge the rising theory that three straight defeats in League One equals a backward stagger into mediocrity.

Ward: I expect Leeds United to win the title

Published 22 September 2008

Carlisle United 0 Leeds United 2: One of Leeds United’s lesser-known nicknames is The Peacocks - a handy reference point for the Yorkshire club’s latest jaunt to Cumbria, which started with flying feathers for Gary McAllister’s flock, but ended with a colourful strut.

Taylor's strike seals win in bruising Southend game

Published 8 September 2008

Carlisle 2 Southend 1: From Freedman to freed men. This was Carlisle United’s players liberating themselves from the psychological clamp that a crafty old striker had placed around their heads.

Golden gloves Williams helps United to draw

Published 5 September 2008

Orient 0 Carlisle Utd 0: Leyton Orient’s ground, which stands a short leap from the next Olympic site, was a decent place for Ben Williams to hurdle the perception that he could never replace Keiren Westwood with credibility between Carlisle United’s posts.