Hello sport fans,
Have you watched the ending of this weekend premier league? Have you seen the battle of Manchester?? Have yuo heard what happened there? Do you know the result? Do you know the final knight??
...well ... here it is..
Michael Owen stole the show in a derby for the ages as Manchester United beat Manchester City 4-3.
In the fifth minute of stoppage-time, the substitute strode onto Ryan Giggs' precise pass, looked up and calmly found the bottom right corner.
United led three times but on each occasion were pegged back thanks to their own defensive mistakes.
Carlos Tevez started the match against his former club. His hard work was one of the reasons that made him such a hero among the Old Trafford faithful and why the City fans were so quick to acknowledge talent beyond the obvious humour of signing a player Sir Alex Ferguson was urged time and again last season to sign up.
That knowledge left Ben Foster with no excuse for the poor error of judgement that gifted City their equaliser.
Foster clearly felt the ball would eventually run into the area.
Eventually, Foster realised more urgent action was required as Tevez stormed in, just as he should have expected.
Any chance of redemption disappeared as Tevez nicked the ball away from Foster's grasp as he tried to reach the safety of his area, and slipped a pass to Gareth Barry which the England midfielder gleefully swept home.
The mistake was made worse by the knowledge Foster had already received one warning, when he got his wires crossed with Nemanja Vidic and allowed Tevez to half-block a long punt downfield.
An errant Wayne Rooney backheel might not have been of the same magnitude but its consequences were almost equally dire for United.
Kolo Toure strode onto the loose ball and fed Tevez for the opportunity to score. The Argentine thought his shot was going in. To his frustration - it bounced to safety off the post.
But it was United who made a bright start, with Rooney and Dimitar Berbatov looking particularly threatening, when Shaun Wright-Phillips let Patrice Evra run free at a quickly-taken Ryan Giggs throw-in.
Evra fed Rooney, who had the strength to wriggle past Toure and Nigel de Jong before prodding home from close range.
At that point, the noise was deafening. If anything, the volume had gone even further up the scale at the end of an awesome first seven minutes of the second half as United got their noses in front, only to be pegged back once more.
Fletcher did the damage for Ferguson's team, rising above Barry to power home a Giggs' curling cross.
Yet, just as the hosts looked set to take control, with Park Ji-sung and Giggs going close, Craig Bellamy thundered home an equaliser.
Bellamy had been buzzing around in his inimitable manner, but there was no doubting the stamp of class on his 20-yard strike as he collected Tevez's short pass, cut inside John O'Shea and drilled into the top right corner. This time Foster was blameless.
But there was so much drama still to come.
Fletcher thought he had won it as he powered home a second header, again from a Giggs cross, 10 minutes from time.
Yet the suicidal tendencies in United ranks had not gone away.
Rio Ferdinand attempted an idle chip a minute from time, but found Barry instead. Barry released Bellamy, who ran 60 yards before tucking past Foster.
It seemed City had come through their biggest test yet only for Owen to strike with seconds remaining.
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