Manchester United 1 – 0 Wolves
The most fun part of the evening came right at the end, when the fourth official raised his board to indicate there would be a minimum of three minutes’ stoppage time. ‘We want six,’ the Wolves supporters hilariously responded. The evening was made a little tough for the red peril after young Fabio da Silva groped Michael Kightly to the turf with the Wolves winger running clean through on goal leaving the ref little option but to produce the red card. Midway through the second half United broke the deadlock, Danny Welbeck played a neat one-two with Michael Owen and when the young fellow collected the ball he found the far corner.
Preston 1 – 5 Tottenham
A Peter Crouch hat-trick helped keep Tottenham on course for a third successive Carling Cup final, by which time they might even have some of their central defenders back. For the second successive match in the Carling Cup Spurs hit five at a Championship side. Robbie Keane and Jermain Defoe scored the other goals for Harry Redknapp’s side. Chris Brown had briefly made the score 3-1.
Chelsea 1 – 0 QPR
Salomon Kalou helped Chelsea past their west London neighbours and into the fourth round. Kalou was the match winner in the local derby for a weakened Chelsea side. Tom Heaton was inspired form for Rangers to keep out Borini and the returning Joe Cole late on.
Manchester City 2 – 1 Fulham (AET)
The 2010 Carling Cup offers City exactly what it gave José Mourinho and Chelsea in 2005, the easiest opportunity to announce there is substance behind the nouveau riche. This is important to city, i,z performance showed that. Zoltan Gera opened the scoring with a tremendous long range effort to put the Cottagers in front eleven minutes before the break. The home side responded through Gareth Barry six minutes after half-time and eventually won the tie in the 111th minute with Kolo Toure scoring his first goal for the club.
Aston Villa 1 – 0 Cardiff
On a night when Nigel Reo-Coker was a notable absentee from the Aston Villa squad, Gabriel Agbonlahor continued his impressive form to score for the fourth successive match. Agbonlahor continued his fine recent scoring run with the winner early on: a classy back-heel finish. James Milner smashed a penalty against the woodwork in the second half.
Hull City 0 – 4 Everton
The Tigers fans who turned out watched in miserable disbelief, and even the Everton supporters appeared faintly embarrassed as the Toffees hammered the Tigers and were three up within 25 minutes. Yakubu, Jo and Dan Gosling were the first half goal scorers, with captain for the night Leon Osman completing the rout.
Bolton 3 – 1 West Ham (AET)
Herita Ilunga put the Hammers into the just before the hour mark, but it all went pear shaped from then on. Kevin Davies equalised four minutes from time and in extra-time Gary Cahill scored a cracker and Johan Elmander claimed a rare goal.
Peterborough 2 – 0 Newcastle
The big shock of the night, given that Peterborough had only won their first game of the season at the weekend. Posh took the lead in the 20th minute when Craig Mackail-Smith continued his fine run of fine heading home an assist from the lively George Boyd. The second came in the 32nd minute, a rare goal from Tom Williams (his first for 5 years) who wheeled away in celebration after netting his first goal in five years, once again with Boyd providing the assist.
Increasingly middle-aged and increasingly disillusioned by modern football, I want to share with you how good football used to be before it was ruined by money. 
