After The announcement that Michael Owen will not be recalled to the England squad ahead of the WCQ Fixtures against Croatia and Slovenia, I thought this thread was called for.

Will Michael Owen Ever Play For England Again?

Look at this crap I have just read on the Sunday Mirror Website

United have failed in a sensational bid to prise Stephen Ireland away from arch rivals Manchester City.
Sir Alex Ferguson hoped that the 23-year-old Irishman could be tempted away from Eastlands because Mark Hughes has an embarrassment of midfield riches with Gareth Barry, Nigel de Jong and Vincent Kompany in his squad.
But United were told that there was no chance of City selling Ireland – their current player of the year – at any price.
Ireland, who has just signed a five-year deal at City, said: “I want to be part of what happens at City because I think we’re going to achieve great things.

Talking about bad press day??

Current Carling Cup Champions Man Utd will play Wolves in Old Trafford after the 3rd round draw for the carling cup draw was made.

Full Draw:

Arsenal v West Brom
Chelsea v QPR
Bolton v West Ham
Barnsley v Burnley
Hull v Everton
Leeds v Liverpool
Manchester United v Wolves
Manchester City v Fulham
Sunderland v Birmingham
Peterborough v Newcastle
Carlisle v Portsmouth
Nottingham Forest v Blackburn
Stoke v Blackpool
Scunthorpe v Port Vale
Preston v Tottenham
Aston Villa v Cardiff

Ties will be played week commencing Monday, 21 September

http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-G...page_sport

So I think Sir Alex knows he may need reinforcements, hopefully I think we should go for Silva/Ashley Young and then a midfield general like Daniele De Rossi or Wilson Palacios! Hopefully we sign someone as I love deadline day and last year was so exciting with the Berba deal.

Carrick's one against Burnley to avoid the embarresing defeat or Rooney's one against Arsenal to win against our title rvals and ed their winning streak?

I like it the wa it is, with Rooney scoring, because we got mone more point from the 2 games than if we would have if Carrick scored, and Rooney didn't. And for some reason, for me, it is better to lose to Burnley than to draw with Arsenal at home, cuz we can say it's a blip.