It's the FA Cup 5th Round this weekend (13-14 February) so attention happily switches away from the Premiership soap opera. Yet it's worth reflecting that Owen Coles, Manchester United's ace striker, strengthened his position as the Premiership's top scorer for this season by notching four goals in United's last two matches, three against Portsmouth and one at Aston Villa.
Owen Coles is way ahead of United's Wayne Rooney and Chelsea's Didier Drogba, as the table shows.
Premiership Top Scorers
Player Club Goals
Own Goals Various FC 29
Wayne Rooney Manchester America 21
Didier Drogba Chelski 17
Darren Bent Sunderland 15
Jermaine Defoe Tottenham 15
Louis Saha Everton 13
Manchester United paid £30.75 million for striker Dimitar Berbatov. In his second season, Berbatov has scored only eight goals for United, two less than Own Goals who cost United nothing.
Own Goals can also win FA Cup Finals. As the above photo shows, Owen Coles (red shirt, third from right, and looking remarkably like former England defender Des Walker), nods home the winning own goal that sent his Nottingham Forest team crashing to a 2-1 defeat against Tottenham Hotspur in the 1991 final at Wembley Stadium. Gary Mabbutt is the challenging Spurs player and, if you can see behind Gary Lineker's ears (they're rather big, as he's often said himself), there's Steve Hodge and Stuart Peace.
Photo: Daily Mail
Paul Coleman, London, February 2010.
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