Football: F A Cup Final: Seven Goals in a Week for Owen the Millennium Man ; Enter McAllister to Inflict the Final Indignity: Arsenal 1 Liverpool 2 Ljungberg 72 Owen 83, 88 Half-Time: 0-0 Attendance: 74,200

Townsend, Nick, The Independent (London, England)

IN 30 YEARS' time, they will still refer to it as the "Michael Owen final", just as the name of Charlie George remains immortalised from these clubs' last meeting in an FA Cup final. It was the impish England striker alone whose predatory cunning left the Arsenal players prone and utterly bewildered at the final whistle, questioning just where it had all gone so wrong. For Liverpool had absolutely no right to triumph here yesterday.

All you could say in explanation was that it was time for the Anfield club. Liverpool had been vanquished in these clubs' previous two final meetings, first in 1950 when a Brylcreemed Denis Compton and his brother, Leslie, adorned the stage …

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Publication information: Article title: Football: F A Cup Final: Seven Goals in a Week for Owen the Millennium Man ; Enter McAllister to Inflict the Final Indignity: Arsenal 1 Liverpool 2 Ljungberg 72 Owen 83, 88 Half-Time: 0-0 Attendance: 74,200. Contributors: Townsend, Nick - Author. Newspaper title: The Independent (London, England). Publication date: May 13, 2001. Page number: 3. © 2009 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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