Match reports
UNITED CREWE-Z SIX-GOAL THRILLER
Published 18 August 2008
THE hope is that Carlisle United’s supporters gulped down all the technicolour treats they were offered on Saturday and savoured the feeling. Because you can bet the main upshot from this banquet of attacking football is that most visiting teams will now land in Cumbria with the specific intention of wiping entertainment right off the menu.
Murphy's precise kick seals win at Shrewsbury
Published 13 August 2008
Shrewsbury Town 0 Carlisle United 1: Shrewsbury is known as “the gateway to Wales”, but there was no danger of Carlisle United being bundled down a valley as long as Peter Murphy was around.
Carlton's brace seals away-day win for Carlisle
Published 11 August 2008
Bristol Rovers 2 Carlisle United 3: Scorelines don’t always tell the story – take Carlisle United’s 3-2 win over Bristol Rovers on Saturday.
Classy Workington hammer woeful Carlisle
Published 5 August 2008
This was a tale of one Cumbrian team pushing on with pace and style while another stumbled lethargically in the rough direction of the starting line.
Under-par United slip up against Morecambe
Published 4 August 2008
Friendly: Morecambe 2 Carlisle United 1: The grand plan didn’t include League One’s best centre-half enduring a painful brush with farce, nor his team-mates having a pre-season of so much clean progress being checked quite dramatically.
Digard's strike seals friendly win for Middlesbrough
Published 30 July 2008
Carlisle United 1 Middlesbrough 2: Fighting a losing battle for airtime and column inches just now is the old truth that will finally rise up and confront Carlisle United in 10 days’ time.
Blues earn fine draw against Preston
Published 28 July 2008
Carlisle United 2 Preston North End 2: Inspecting pre-season friendlies for significance requires a pair of stronger lenses than normal, but John Ward was on the money with his assessment of this pleasing midsummer engagement under the Cumbrian sun.
Blues' super subs sink Chester
Published 23 July 2008
Chester 1 Carlisle Utd 3: The quality of Carlisle's men in reserve proved too much for Chester to handle at the Deva Stadium last night as late strikes by subs Gary Madine and Simon Hackney handed the visitors a battling pre-season win.
Partick's poor finishing lets Carlisle off the hook
Published 21 July 2008
Partick Thistle 0 Carlisle Utd 0: Carlisle United's defenders will be hoping they encounter such inept finishing from opposing forwards next season after Partick Thistle's mis-firing strikers let them off the hook.
Dobie at the double as Blues start with a win at Kendal
Published 18 July 2008
FRIENDLY: Kendal 0 Carlisle United 4: Scott Dobie flew out of the traps with a quick-fire brace as Carlisle United cruised through their first pre-season test in south Cumbria.
Howson double ends United's dream
Published 28 May 2008
CHECK the sun to see if it has bothered to rise over Carlisle today. This was Jimmy Glass, Aldershot and all those other extreme nights of Brunton Park drama swinging back in the Cumbrian face.
How the action unfolded on a night of play-off despair
Published 16 May 2008
It wasn't pretty, it wasn't what we wanted. But this was how it happened minute by minute!
Just one step from Wembley
Published 14 May 2008
League One Play-offs semi-final first leg: Leeds United 1 Carlisle United 2
Westwood wonder show
Published 14 May 2008
WONDER keeper Keiren Westwood was hailed as Carlisle United’s hero as the Blues stunned Leeds to take a dramatic step towards Wembley.
How they rated
Published 13 May 2008
Jon Colman gives his verdict on how the Blues heroes played in the epic win over Leeds.
Leeds 1 Carlisle 2
Published 13 May 2008
Carlisle moved a step closer to Wembley with a superb win at Elland Road - but Leeds kept the tie alive with an injury-time goal.
Bring on Leeds says Ward as United prepare for play-offs
Published 5 May 2008
Carlisle United 1 AFC Bournemouth 1: Carlisle's attempts to relight the flame of their automatic promotion bid had already taken in a pre-match appeal to the Almighty and a rousing appearance from a World Cup winner by the time their goalkeeper, Keiren Westwood, went scampering forward for a corner and then back again in the closing minutes.
Blues horror show as Lions show claws
Published 30 April 2008
Millwall 3 Carlisle Utd 0: Had another London venue not already taken the name, Millwall’s ground could now be rebranded as an alternative Chamber of Horrors and pitched to touring Cumbrians with a taste for the macabre.
Youth four steps from glory
Published 22 April 2008
CARLISLE United’s depleted youth team have four games left to end their own campaign in glory.
Southend ambush piles the pressure on wobbly United
Published 22 April 2008
Carlisle United 1 Southend United 2: THE earth is still orbiting the sun. Gravity keeps pulling things down. And, what do you know, Carlisle have found another way to stretch the season to its final kicks.
