United Road Take Me Home

One man team? Not on this evidence. Understandably, Wayne has been hogging the plaudits, but it's not like every goal has been some solo effort conjured from nowhere. Valencia and Nani have provided impeccable crosses, Carrick, Fletcher and Park have been exemplary in the middle, and yesterday, it was all about one man; everyone's favourite languid Bulgarian.

Where is the jury currently positioned on the Berba question? Yesterday was an exquisite refutation of every lazy line trotted out by the Berba sceptics. Doesn't work hard enough? So who was that closing down and pressing the Fulham midfield? Can't play with Rooney? Watch that second goal again. And the first come to that. Doesn't finish? Goal number three.

As one firmly in the pro-Dimitar wing of red/green & gold support, even I have to accept that for all the sublime touches and moments like the Reebok last season, Berbatov hasn't done enough to completely destroy the sceptics case. But if yesterday is anything to go by, it won't be long before he does.