Championship Crewe Alexandra 3-1 Luton Town Bottom against third but perhaps predictably in this unpredictable division Crewe recorded their first win since the opening day, although Luton were left to reflect on only one goal from a hatful of first half chances.  | | Simon Oxley reports. |
Dean Morgan had put Luton in front but Warren Feeney had four chances and Peter Holmes had a fine header saved brilliantly by Ben Williams who in fairness was probably more to credit than Feeney was to blame for those other missed chances. At the other end Crewe had twice hit the woodwork and Billy Jones punished some Luton hesitancy from a set piece to equalise. Fewer chances in the second half, much fewer but it was anyone's game and Crewe took it with two goals in the last three minutes, Kenny Lunt and Luke Varney with the goals. Luton can bounce back at home to Norwich on Tuesday and probably will. After the match Luton manager Mike Newell had this to say about the performance: "We should have been in front at half time, we had created enough chances and the keeper has made three fine saves." "We had controlled the game as we have been doing away from home but we are just not punishing teams and putting it out of reach the way we would like." Goals for Crewe: Billy Jones 37, Lunt 88, Varney 90. Goals for Luton: Morgan 29. Att: 6,604. Ref: T Bates (Staffordshire). Watford 1-2 Leicester City Watford's third home defeat of the season was self inflicted as they failed to cope with some direct football from a Leicester team who hadn't won away since last December.  | | Euan Duncan reports. |
Striker Mark de Vries put Leicester ahead with a close range volley on the half hour a minute after an Ashley Young shot was agonisingly cleared off the line by Dion Dublin's desperate lunge. When the Hornets equalised four minutes after the restart the game was there to be won, young exploited a mistake by Dublin to drive a fierce inside the post. Then Watford went immediately to sleep from a corner and Patrick Kisnorbo was allowed a free header to steal the points. Leicester squandered several opportunities to win more convincingly while Anthony McNamee laid his shot to long to cost Watford their best chance of equalising. After the match Watford manager Adrian Boothroyd had this to say about the performance: "We didn't win the game, we didn't perform particularly well and that is probably the worse we have played all season." "We were very average today and didn't have the energy that we normally have, we are a team that are working to get better and in order to get better we have to get things wrong before we can get them right." Goals for Watford : Young 49. Goals for Leicester: de Vries 29, Kisnorbo 51. Att: 16,224. Ref: U Rennie (S Yorkshire). League One MK Dons 0-0 Chesterfield This game ended with Danny Wilson being sent off and with two penalty shouts and three shots hitting the post and Paul Mitchell seeing red the manager's emotions got the better of him.  | | Luke Ashmead reports |
The first half was dominated by the Dons, within the first ten minutes Izale McLeod saw two right footed efforts go just wide of the goal. When his next shot hit the post it looked like Gareth Edds had got the ball over the line but the referees assistant said no goal. Two penalties were also waved away in the first half and it went into the break goaless. Chesterfield played marginally better in the second half especially following Paul Mitchell's red card in the 70th minute, but they never really bothered the Dons and even with ten men MK still looked the more likely to take all three points. Just before the end Danny Wilson was ordered from the touchline by referee Trevor Parks, just one comment too many to the fourth official it seems. The Dons are now out of the bottom four but once again it could and really should have been much more. After the match the MK Dons Assistant manger Ian Bowyer had this to say about the decision which lead to Danny Wilson's dismissal: "I'm not quite sure what the conversation was but I just think that with 88 minutes gone and everybody being in a position of 0-0 and everybody to a degree is stressed, I just thought a little understanding from the fourth official would not have gone a miss." Att: 5,642 Ref: T Parkes (W Midlands). League Two Wycombe Wanderers 0-0 Rushden & Diamonds Wycombe manager John Gorman's programme notes said that when you are at the top of the league you are there to be shot at and that was certainly the case in this match. Chances came thick and fast for the Chairboys with Tommy Mooney's return to form earning him the man of the match award, he went close in the early stages when he tried a lob from ten yards and was a menace all match. Rushden are fighting for their lives in League Two and could have stolen all three points in the dying minutes when 16 year old substitute striker Lee Tomlin was one on one with Wycombe keeper Andy Lonergan, yet again the on loan man saved superbly. It was a scrapy affair which once again lacked the usual entertaining flowing football that Blues fans have come to expect and not the way in which they would have liked to have seen a new club record set, 14 games unbeaten, they would have wanted a win, which is testament to the quality that they are use to. After the match the Wycombe manager John Gorman had this to say about his teams performance: " I was disappointed, maybe we are asking too much, we just didn't play to our full potential today and it was a frustrating game." Att: 5,231 Ref: R Olivier (W Midlands). Conference Stevenage 3-1 Accrington Stanley Jon Nurse inspired 10-man Stevenage to a terrific fightback against highflying Accrington and a 3-1 win which maintained his side's unbeaten home record. Michael Warner's 25th-minute sending off looked to have cost Boro dear when Steve Jagielka pounced to put Accrington ahead less than 60 seconds later. But Nurse levelled shortly after the break following good work from George Boyd, and the striker was the key figure as the home side took an unlikely lead when he won a penalty that Dino Maamria converted. Accrington huffed and puffed but never really looked like getting back on level terms as 10-man Stevenage cruised towards the final whistle. A deserved three points were wrapped up 10 minutes from time thanks to a spectacular own goal from Robbie Williams - a moment that summed up Accrington's second-half display. Goals for Stevenage: Nurse 53, Maamria 61 pen, Williams 81 og. Goals for Accrington: Jagielka 27. Att: 2,141 Ref: A Rayner (Leicestershire). | 
