22.12 Well into the second period of extra time at Vicarage Road and still 0-0.
22.07 It's quite funny with the Soccer Saturtuesday thing. All the other games have finished but Paul Walsh is having to stay behind and keep commentating. Silence around him, the other blokes clearly having naffed off for a drink-up in the green room. It's like he's being kept behind in detention. He reports that it's all Norwich in that game now, but few actual opportunities.
22.04 No further goals in Watford v Norwich as the half time in extra time approaches.
21.59 Only downer for Chelsea was that Ramires, scorer of a neat second, went off hurt. Chelsea's starting XI today cost 174 million pound. That's not bad for a B Team.
21.56 Some good games, by the sounds of it. Comfortable wins for Chelsea and Man City. A worrying hammering for Villa at home to Spurs. A win for Sunderland as they wash that mad man right out of their hair. Southampton through easily enough. The game of the night has to be the five goal thriller at West Ham. No real upsets to speak of yet, unless Watford can turn Norwich over.
21.54 Norwich are looking the most likely in that game against Watford, young Josh Murphy has taken the game by the scruff of the neck.
21.50 Nicely done, Fulham. Overturned a 1-0 deficit and they're into the hat for the fourth round. Fulham 2 Everton 1 FT
21.48 Heartbreaker for Cardiff, coming back from 2-0 down only to ship an 88th minute goal.
21.48 Back underway at Vicarage Road as Watford and Norwich duke it out.
21.47 Little Dennis Wise says that "wherever he plays, whatever competition, Premier League, Champions League, Torres always performs." That's not the case, is it?
21.46 Can the Fuggers hold on against Everton? They came from behind and now lead 2-1 with 89 minutes gone.
21.43 Game effort from a useful Swindon side against Man City but the result was never in any doubt.
FULL TIME Swindon 0 Chelsea 2
21.41 Results everywhere, apart from the Watford game and then that late kick off at Fulham.
FULL TIME Burnley 2 Nott'm Forest 1
21.40 So we're going to have extra time at Watford.
FULL TIME Aston Villa 0 Spurs 4
FULL TIME Hull 1 Huddersfield 0 The Premier League team hold on for a narrow win.
FULL TIME Leicester 2 Derby 1 That is a fine win for Leicester, trailing for a long time, and then two goals in three minutes.
21.38 Dear me. Aston Villa. What a shocker. It's Defoe, it's four.
FULL TIME: A harsh night for Wigan, thumped by five goals as City displayed their awesome strength in depth. Man City 5 Wigan 0
21.36 Torres with a great solo run nearly adds the third.
21.34 Two Premier League teams who look to have avoided potential bananaramas tonight are Southampton and Sunderland, who are 2-0 up against Bristol City and the Posh respectively.
21.32 Dear me, bit of a humiliation for Aston Villa now. Villa sloopy at the back, give the ball away, Chadli with the shot and the Villa goalie should have done a lot better as it dribbles over the line.
21.31 What a game going on at the Boleyn! Now Ricardo Vaz Te has given the Hammers the lead again.
21.29 And Fulham have likewise overturned a one-nil deficit to lead 2-1. On-loan Darren Bent is the man.
21.28 Leicester are turning this around! They've scored three in two minutes.
21.26 Nicklas Helenius there. Sadly, not the only pants thing about the Villa performance tonight.
21.20 There's signs of life for the Canaries as they pull one back at Watford.
21.19 And if it wasn't already over in Manchester, it is now: Yaya Toure with a blinding freekick.
21.18 Bit of a cracker at West Ham, Cardiff have battled back from 2-0 and they have tied it at 2-2.
And it is no less a pesonage than Transfer Window favourite Peter Odemwingie who has hit the net.
21.17 18,000 souls in at Sunderland, that's a small crowd for them. But it looks like they should see a win for the Black Cats.
21.14 Cracker in Lancashire. Danny Ings has scored his second, Burnley are in fine form at the moment.
21.12 A bad tempered game at Turf Moor, we're told. Derbyshire latches onto a poor backpass and is through, he chips the keeper but it's a foot over.
21.11 Fulham have got one back!
21.10 Paulinho's had a very fine game for Spurs and he gets subbed off in favour of Dembele. I really fancy Spurs this season, they seem to have a boatload of excellent players.
21.09 Hard lines for Swindon that Nile Ranger had to go off, they look less threatening now.
21.06 Hibs get their fifth! Stranraer stuck on three, but you wouldn't bet against more goals in that one.
21.04 Looks like resistance is proving futile for Wigan. They've gone two nil down against City and that will have to be the end of that.
21.00 Swindon with a useful direct free kick.
20.58 The Bristol CIty goalie is having a good game, and the lower league side are hanging on in there. They look dangerous on the break, I hear. That last sentence sounded like a crossword clue, didn't it?
20.56 Poor show from the Villa, goals either side of HT.
20.51 Back underway everywhere. Paul Jewell is having hysterics. Heh. Vertonghen has pulled down the shorts of Helenius in the area! Should have been a penalty, apparently, but not given.
20.49 Mighty Hibs, for some reason, have scored four (4) goals against Stranraer.
20.47 City have brought on Yaya Toure. In other daunting substitute news, John Terry has come on for Ramires at Swindon. Swindon's ghost looks well and truly cooked: main man Nile Ranger has had to come off for injury.
20.46 Unlikely lifeline for Cardiff by all accounts.
20.44 Suarez is champing at the bit [to get back playing], according to Brendan Rodgers on the radio. Seems an unfortunate choice of phrase given the reason for the player's suspension...
20.43 Everton are well on top against Fulham, a young Spanish lad whose name I didn't catch is apparently running the show for the Toffees. Ah yes. Gerard Deulofeu. On loan from Barcelona.
20.41 What's going at Leicester, then? Derby deserve their lead, accordiong to Peter Drury on Radio Five, and the goal was a tap-in. Isn't PD an ITV commentator? Maybe he's allowed to graze freely.
20.38 Micah Richards and Edin Dzeko putting in great shifts for City as they attempt to advance their claims to get in that formidable first XI. Their 1-0 lead over Wigan not fully representative of the dominance.
20.34 Chelsea come off for the half well in control, looks like a done deal down at the County Ground. Shades of offside for the Torres opener, maybe.
20.31 An actual groan from Cam as Jermain Defoe thumps the ball home to put Spurs ahead. A well deserved lead by all accounts. Lewis Holtby cut Villa open with a fine pass.
20.27 Derby have taken the lead in the East Midlands grudge match.
20.23 Great save from Jed Steer keeps it even at Villa.
20.21 I reckon Swindon have had their fun. Great skill from Torres, beats a couple of men and slips it to Ramires with a crisp finish.
20.19 Swindon fans sing: "where were you when you were s***?" Standard.
20.14 Class starting to tell for Chelsea. Mata slips Torres through and he might well have scored. And then a minute ot two later, Ramires slips it to Mata, he shoots, really good save. But hard lines for the keeper, it's right into the path of Torres, and he cannot miss.
GOAL! Burnley 0 Forest 1 (Derbyshire 24) We just learned that Burnley is the world's biggest consumer of Benedictine outside France. Oh, Wikipedia. What did we do before you?
20.08 Swindon holding their own against Chelsea.
20.05 Villa being too passive against Spurs, from what I hear, sitting back and letting Spurs have their way with them.
20.00 They might have made 11 changes, but the understudies have made a good start at St Mary's.
19.58 Kyle Walker needs treatment.
19.56 Marc Albrighton has been denied by Brad Friedel against the run of play. Fine save against his old club.
19.55 Seb Larsen has gone close an effort for Sunderland.
19.54 Good news, fans of Scottish League Cup action: Hibs are back on level terms. I've see us lose to Stranraer at home. Stranraer. I mean, come on. That's like a ferry port.
19.53 Ramires comes on. César Azpilicueta tries a throw-in and it slips out of his hands. Foul throw. Oh dear.
19.50 Nasty injury at Swindon to Chelsea's Marco Van Ginkel goes down and it looks like he has twisted his knee. Able to limp off though, so not quite as bad as it first looked. He's been subbed off though.
19.48 In the big game of the evening, mighty Hibernian have gone one down early on against Stranraer. Oh good.
19.47 Nile Ranger and David Luiz invovled in a bit of early handbags in the Swindon v Chelsea game.
19.46 West Ham have scored at Cardiff. Ravel Morrison! Not a great start for the visitors from Wales..
19.45 Kick off!
19.41 And to come back to where we started, here's West Ham and Cardiff.
West Ham: Adrian, Chambers, Tomkins, Collins, McCartney, Jarvis, Morrison, Taylor, Vaz Te, Maiga, Collison. Subs: Nolan, Rat, Diame, Henderson, Petric, Ruddock, Moncur.
Cardiff: Lewis, Connolly, Hudson, Brayford, John, Odemwingie, Mutch, Cowie, Noone, Mason, Maynard. Subs: Smith, Gestede, Lappin, McNaughton, Moore, Harris, Healey.
Referee: Roger East (Wiltshire)
19.39 It's your all new Saints! An entirely new eleven from the one that played at Anfield.
Southampton: Kelvin Davis, Chambers, Yoshida, Hooiveld, Fox, Steven Davis, Cork, Ward-Prowse, Ramirez, Do Prado, Lee. Subs: Rodriguez, Lallana, Gazzaniga, Rowe, Reed, McCarthy, Targett.
Bristol City: Parish, Moloney, Flint, Williams, Shorey, Wagstaff, Pack, McLaughlin, Reid, Bryan, Emmanuel-Thomas. Subs: Fielding, Kilkenny, Baldock, Cunningham, Harewood, Brundle, Burns.
Referee: Graham Scott (Oxfordshire)
19.37 Whagwaan at Vicarage Road? Dis.
Watford: Bond, Ekstrand, Belkalem, Cassetti, Faraoni, Murray, McEachran, Battocchio, Pudil, Acuna, Fabbrini. Subs: Brown, Deeney, McGugan, Forestieri, Anya, Woods, Smith.
Norwich: Bunn, Whittaker, Martin, Ryan Bennett, Garrido, Redmond, Johnson, Tettey, Olsson, Hoolahan, Hooper. Subs: Turner, Howson, Fer, Elmander, Becchio, Nash, Murphy.
Referee: Stephen Martin (Staffordshire)
19.35 The always enjoyable sight on Soccer SaturTuesday of three English pros (and Didi) having a massive pop at a foreign manager. It's always different when an English manager has made a tool of himself, isn't it? OLD BOYS CLUB.
19.34 News in from Hull.
Hull: Harper, Rosenior, Bruce, Faye, Dudgeon, Boyd, Meyler, Quinn, Fryatt, Proschwitz, Sagbo. Subs: Davies, Huddlestone, Livermore, Jakupovic, Gedo, Elmohamady, Henderson.
Huddersfield: Smithies, Woods, Wallace, Smith, Carroll, Norwood, Gobern, Southern, Carr, Scannell, Paterson. Subs: Hammill, Bennett, Stead, Lopez, Richards, Ridehalgh, Holmes.
Referee: Simon Hooper (Wiltshire)
19.30 Paul Walsh says that Di Canio could have got away with his abusive style at Swindon but when you get better players "players who have got a bit more about them, a bit more pride about them" they won't stand for it. Bit harsh, isn't it? Just because you play for Sunderland, doesn't mean you try harder than a guy who plays for Swindon? Still, I think I get what Paul is driving at: the bigger wage/ego platers won't suck it up.
19.29 Romelu Lukaku starts his first game for Everton as Roberto Martinez's men looked to make it through to the fourth round of the Capital One Cup at Fulham's expense.
Gerard Deulofeu, John Stones, Joel Robles and Bryan Ovideo all make starts as Martinez made eight changes from the XI that beat West Ham on Saturday.
Dimitar Berbatov is recalled to the Fulham team after missing the defeat to Chelsea with a hamstring injury and there was also a debut for Montenegro defender Elsad Zverotic.
19.26 Busy few days for the lad Fernandinho, innit? He was magnif against the Super Manchester Reds the other day, alongside Yaya in the centre. Micah Richards makes his first appearance of the season and 17-year-old forward Marcos Lopes is handed a full debut.
19.23 Teams are in from the County Ground. Come on Swindon!
Swindon: Foderingham, Nathan Thompson, Hall, Ward, McEveley, Kasim, Luongo, Pritchard, N'Guessan, Ajose, Ranger. Subs: Louis Thompson, Storey, Barthram, Belford, Branco, El-Gabbas, Wood.
Chelsea: Schwarzer, Azpilicueta, Cahill, Luiz, Bertrand, van Ginkel , Essien, De Bruyne, Mata, Willian, Torres. Subs: Ramires, Schurrle, Ba, Terry, Eto'o, Blackman, Baker.
Referee: Michael Oliver (Northumberland)
19.21 Bit of a hiatus in the blog there as I talk Cameron out of beating me up. More teams? Sure.
Fulham: Stockdale, Zverotic, Hangeland, Senderos, Riise, Taarabt, Karagounis, Parker, Kacaniklic, Kasami, Berbatov. Subs: Sidwell, Rodallega, Riether, Amorebieta, Na Bangna, Etheridge, Bent.
Everton: Robles, Coleman, Heitinga, Distin, Stones, Oviedo, McCarthy, Gibson, Deulofeu, Naismith, Lukaku. Subs: Baines, Jagielka, Jelavic, Mirallas, Barry, Barkley, Howard.
Referee: Martin Atkinson (W Yorkshire)
19.18 And what news from England's second city? Cameron Macphail, sat to my right, proud Brummie and proud Aston Villa fan, is nervous for his boys against Spurs. He also reckons that Peaky Blinders thing is rubbish though, so maybe we shouldn't trust his opinion too much. It's good, right? I mean, the accents aren't brilliant but, like, they all sound Northern or whatever so that's good enough for me. Birmingham's in the North, right?
Aston Villa: Steer, Lowton, Vlaar, Baker, Bennett, El Ahmadi, Sylla, Albrighton, Bacuna, Tonev, Kozak. Subs: Guzan, Clark, Helenius, Weimann, Bowery, Johnson, Robinson.
Spurs: Friedel, Walker, Chiriches, Vertonghen, Fryers, Paulinho, Sandro, Lamela, Holtby, Defoe, Kane. Subs: Gomes, Soldado, Naughton, Townsend, Dembele, Dawson, Chadli.
Referee: Jon Moss (W Yorkshire)
19.17 And here's the Posh side who will line up against Sunderland. Kevin Ball, who is caretaker for the Black Cats, has made eight changes.
Sunderland: Westwood, Gardner, O'Shea, Cuellar, Colback, Johnson, Ki, Larsson, Cattermole, Giaccherini, Altidore. Subs: Cabral, Wickham, Ba, Mannone, Roberge, Borini, Mavrias.
Peterborough: Olejnik, Ntlhe, Bostwick, Zakuani, Alcock, Swanson, Payne, Rowe, Tomlin, Assombalonga, Barnett. Subs: Brisley, McCann, Day, Newell, Ferdinand, Mendez-Laing, Gordon.
Referee: Michael Naylor (Sheffield)
19.13 David Luiz and Juan Mata start at Swindon. "As a young boy growing up in the favela, I dreamed of one day testing myself at the County Ground against these players... this is dream for me..."
19.11 Norwich manager Chris Hughton is also in Team Focusing On The League. He has made eight changes to his side for their Capital One Cup third round tie at Watford, as the Canaries seek just their third win of the season in all competitions.
Striker Gary Hooper was handed his first start with Ryan Bennett and Steven Whittaker recalled in defence. Martin Olsson, Alexander Tettey, Bradley Johnson and Wes Hoolahan were also brought in by Hughton.
Chelsea loanee Josh McEachran made his Watford debut as Gianfranco Zola also made eight alterations from the side that won 5-1 at Barnsley in the Sky Bet Championship on Saturday.
Risky for Chrissy, innit? There were early signs that the natives were restless at Carrow Road the other day.
19.10 It's all gone team news mental! Incoming!
Burnley: Heaton, Trippier, Long, Shackell, Mee, Edgar, Marney, Treacy, Ings, Stanislas, Vokes. Subs: Lafferty, Cisak, O'Neill, Kightly, Stock, Noble, Arfield.
Nottm Forest: De Vries, Jara, Collins, Lascelles, Harding, Paterson, Moussi, Gillett, Majewski, Derbyshire, Blackstock. Subs: Cohen, Halford, Miller, Tudgay, Cox, Al-Rashidi, Abdoun.
Referee: Darren Drysdale (Lincolnshire)
19.09 Up to Manchestah.
Man City: Pantilimon, Richards, Boyata, Lescott, Clichy, Milner, Fernandinho, Javi Garcia, Lopes, Jovetic, Dzeko. Subs: Nasri, Negredo, Kolarov, Jesus Navas, Wright, Nastasic, Toure.
Wigan: Nicholls, Boyce, Rogne, Barnett, Crainey, McCann, Garcia, Fyvie, Gomez, Espinoza, Dicko. Subs: Carson, Shotton, McClean, McArthur, Powell, Redmond, Buxton.
Referee: Kevin Friend (Leicestershire)
19.03 Back to Sunderland, here are some quotes from Sunderland chief executive Margaret Byrne, writing in her programme notes.
"Whilst the focus is on tonight's game, I know how disappointed each and every supporter was after Saturday's result at West Brom. Everyone at the club felt the same disappointment.
"After Paolo saved us from relegation last season, we gave him an opportunity to take the club forward this season.
"When it became obvious it wasn't working, we had to take the decision to part company with him. We felt it was better to do this now as we ran the risk of being cut adrift at the bottom of the Barclays Premier League.
"We wish Paolo and his staff well for the future."
Meanwhile, Henry Winter has tweeted the teamsheet. It's a new dawn, Sunderland fans.
19.01 Southampton have made 11 changes from the side that beat Liverpool at the weekend. Acceptable prioritisation of Premier League survival? OR joyless cowardy-custardism? Or maybe they think they can beat Brizzle City with whoever they put out. Did you see the Bristol derby the other week? Cracking entertainment.
19.00 News from the East Midlands derby.
Leicester: Schmeichel, Moore, Wasilewski, Miquel, Bakayogo, Hammond, James, Drinkwater, Taylor-Fletcher, Hopper, Schlupp. Subs: De Laet, Konchesky, Whitbread, Dyer, Knockaert, Logan, Nugent.
Derby: Grant, Freeman, Keogh, Buxton, Forsyth, Coutts, Bryson, Hughes, Russell, Sammon, Martin. Subs: Smith, Ward, Jacobs, Deeney, Eustace, Davies, Bennett.
Referee: Dean Whitestone (Northamptonshire)
18.59 Here's your Di Canio-less Sunderland team.
SAFC: Westwood; Gardner, Cuellar, O'Shea, Colback; Larsson, Cattermole, Ki, Giaccherini, Johnson; Altidore.
18.56 And here's our first email of the evening. It comes from Rob, and, well, it's more of a request for a plug than an email, isn't it Rob?. But hey, why not?
18.53 Yay! The Hammers win the prize for first team on the Twitters.
18.40 Teams will be coming in soon. We'll be keeping a particular eye on the Swindon v Chelsea game, where we expect Juan Mata and David Luiz to start. Sure it's what they dreamed of when they signed for the West London club.
18.30 Evening all. It's Captial One Cup time. Regular football blog big names like your Jonathan Liews and your Ben Blooms and your Thom Gibbseses are away, so I will be doing our live coverage of the evening's action. Are we devaluing the competition by fielding a weakened blogging line-up? It's not for me to say... that yes, yes we are. But that's the situation as it stands.
By my reckoning there are 11 games tonight, ten of them kicking off at 19.45 and, for reasons that we cannot quite fathom, Fulham and Everton at 20.00. Anyone know why? Do put me right if you do.
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