Carlisle United match reports

Another home defeat spells the end for Carlisle United's season

Carlisle Utd photo Carlisle United 0 Colchester 2: Seventeenth. Carlisle United’s bleakest season for four years, summed up there in a single word.

Last updated 29 April 2013
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Brave Whitehaven Amateurs undone by Carlisle United's teenage stars

Cumberland Cup final photo Carlisle United 8 Whitehaven Amateurs 1: Whitehaven’s gutsy amateurs were swept aside by a young Carlisle United side in the Cumberland Cup final.

Last updated 24 April 2013
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Brave display by Carlisle Utd but classy Bournemouth too strong

Carlisle Utd photo Bournemouth 3 Carlisle United 1: Never doubt the football fan’s ability to be pessimistic, even when the outlook is glorious.

Last updated 22 April 2013
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Late goals sink Carlisle Utd in Youth Alliance Cup final

Young Blues photo Carlisle United 1 Bristol Rovers 3: Right at the end of a game played in fierce wind, Carlisle United’s cup final hopes were swept away by Bristol Rovers’ deadly finishing.

Last updated 18 April 2013
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Can Carlisle Utd go from solid to spectacular after Preston draw?

Jack Charlton photo Carlisle United 1 Preston North End 1: Jack Charlton, a legendary guest of honour at Brunton Park on Saturday, was never afraid to ask his teams to go airborne in search of glory.

Last updated 15 April 2013
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Carlisle Utd win the turf war against leaders Doncaster

Liam Noble photo Doncaster Rovers 0 Carlisle United 2: By the end, Mark Gillespie had such little use for his goalkeeping gloves that he flung them into the away end, one after the other.

Last updated 10 April 2013
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Confident Carlisle Utd gain impressive victory at Oldham

Danny Livesey photo Oldham 1 Carlisle United 2: There is a strong case for saying Carlisle United timed their best performance of the season for this potentially stressful game. The Blues nailed nervy Oldham with a supreme first-half display and then relied on other important qualities to defy the Latics’ fightback and burst through the 50-point tape.

Last updated 8 April 2013
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Carlisle show steel to earn draw at Sheffield Utd

Sean O’Hanlon photo Sheffield United 0 Carlisle United 0: Carlisle United are drawing their way to League One safety, helped here by a fractious home crowd and a sterile home team who looked alarmingly under-equipped to overcome the Blues’ defensive spirit.

Last updated 2 April 2013
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Lee Miller on the spot twice as Carlisle Utd concede two howlers

Lee Miller photo Carlisle United 2 Shrewsbury 2: In this vintage season for conceding, Carlisle United hit a grim milestone in predictably hellish style.

Last updated 30 March 2013
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Out-of-favour Carlisle Utd stars fire Blues into cup final

Andy Welsh photo Out-of-favour pair Andy Welsh and Danny Cadamarteri fired Carlisle United into a third straight Cumberland Cup final after a 3-1 win at Penrith last night.

Last updated 26 March 2013
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Carlisle Utd substitute Manset transforms match on his debut

Carlisle Utd action photo Carlisle United 3 Yeovil 3: Mathieu Manset is so in tune with his feral nickname that you half expected Brunton Park’s new cult hero to paw the turf and toss away a scrag-end of raw meat before coming on to help Carlisle United save this game.

Last updated 25 March 2013
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Impossible to find redeeming features in Carlisle Utd's latest drubbing

Carlisle Utd action photo Leyton Orient 4 Carlisle United 1: Positives, then. Here goes. Carlisle United are unbeaten this week. Brunton Park has not, at last check, been lifted from the earth by aliens. Leyton Orient only got the four goals, no more.

Last updated 18 March 2013
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O'Hanlon header sets Carlisle Utd on route to victory against Brentford

Carlisle Utd photo Carlisle United 2 Brentford 0: Nine points north of trouble and nine games to go: it would take an almost unprecedented plummet for Carlisle United to get tangled up again near the relegation zone.

Last updated 11 March 2013
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Graft and craft provide hope for Carlisle Utd

McGovern goal photo Crawley Town 1 Carlisle United 1: At half-time, with Carlisle United leading through JP McGovern’s long-range masterpiece, the club’s media officer passed on a piece of paper bearing the most remarkable stat from this season of struggle.

Last updated 6 March 2013
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Another off day for Lee Miller and Carlisle Utd

Mark Beck photo Notts County 1 Carlisle Utd 0: It would be foolish to over-exaggerate the plight of Greg Abbott’s beleaguered troops after this defeat – there have, after all, been more trying times down Warwick Road in the past decade.

Last updated 4 March 2013
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Walsall expose Carlisle Utd shortcomings on chilly night at Brunton Park

Carlisle Utd photo Carlisle United 0 Walsall 3: Carlisle’s hardened criminals, as Greg Abbott likes to call his players, will be doing serious time if they have many more nights like this, when an abysmal performance got the punishment it deserved from Will Grigg, Walsall’s hat-trick hero.

Last updated 27 February 2013
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Super sub Mark Beck rescues point for Carlisle Utd

Mark Beck photo Carlisle United 1 MK Dons 1: If this was a clash of styles, it ended up being more clash than style.

Last updated 25 February 2013
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Rory Loy's comeback continues but Carlisle Utd miss out on win at Portsmouth

Carlisle Utd photo Portsmouth 1 Carlisle United 1: Rory Loy’s comeback tour continued at this far-away stadium but a single goal was not enough reward for Carlisle United’s best players: the 516 of them behind the posts where the Scot scored his third in four games.

Last updated 18 February 2013
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Ex-Blues Reid and Hawley deny Carlisle Utd third win in row

Lee Miller photo Scunthorpe 3 Carlisle United 1: The latest obstacles to three wins on the spin were a ropey first half performance and an opposition team who now look in a false position, down there among the dead men.

Last updated 13 February 2013
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Loy and Miller grab the goals as Carlisle Utd see off Stevenage

Rory Loy photo Carlisle Utd 2 Stevenage 1: Sometimes in their bleak autumn you would have been happy to see Carlisle United negotiate three minutes without conceding, never mind string together that number of victories.