Before I start, here's some breaking news - Ryan Giggs has just scored to make it 5-3 in the
I'd love to take the credit for that one but it's been doing the rounds all week, following the added-on time to the added-on time at Old Trafford - the most talked-about seven minutes since The Beatles released Hey Jude.
And what a corker it was. If Carlsberg did stoppage time they couldn't have done any better - Mark Hughes certainly looked like he needed a drink by the end of it.
He might be a dab hand with the would have struggled to predict events of the past few days.
at the top of the album charts, and leaving us on the same day and Nicklas Bendtner scoring a corker.
At the centre of it all was one Sheyi Emmanuel Adebayor (not sure why he dropped the first name - as acronyms go it's hardly in the same league as US philosopher ).
On the day , it waswho took centre stage at Wembley.
The boy from Tottenham is getting better all the time, tearing Croatia to pieces with an all-action display as the Capello revolution continues apace.
Following theeight years ago, the chant was: "5-1 - even Heskey scored" but the striker went to extraordinary lengths to ensure there would be no repeat of that this time.
but at least there was one person in Manchester still going mad for it.
Step forward Arsene Wenger, whose touchline histrionics at Old Trafford were likened to by some sections of Her Majesty's Press. Throw in Almunia giving away the vital penalty against Manchester United and it truly was Manuel from heaven for the Red Tops.
The Sunday Mirror pictured Wenger in mid-stride under the banner - which surely would have been in the running for headline of the decade, had it not been used by their arch-rivals to describe England's 5-1 triumph in Germany eight years ago.
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