27th October vs Barnsley (a). 2-0.
http://therepublikofmancunia.com/stats-hows-owen-doing-so-far-compared-to-arsenal-chelsea-city-and-liverpool-strikers Good. Owen’s goal . An absolute peach that will give him confidence (important) as well as surely giving Mr. Capello serious food for thought ( un important…just a clichéd thing all post-match reports will comment on, innit? So thought I’d jump on the bandwagon). Through to the whatever-round of the Carling Cup . Lets face it, after League Cup success in recent years – a competition in which Ferguson used to completely neglect and endure universal stick over his favouring of more important trophies – I reckon we all now secretly want to do well in it. It’s the League and FA Cup’s little, annoying, brother who in comparison used to be a tad dumb and irrelevant, yet now (due to the fear amongst the big-spending, high-pressured Top 4© of having a trophyless season), it has been embraced and accepted into the season’s convention. Welcome pointless little brother, welc...