Infamy, Infamy, They've all got it in for me...

It's all about Owen Hargreaves and Barcelona today.

This report from The Daily Star, covers the Hargreaves comments along with comments by Gary Neville and Wes Brown. In The Guardian there is a more in depth look at the comments which relate to his injury:

At the start of the season, Hargreaves was finding that his right knee was swollen after every match. There was a dull, throbbing pain. He was diagnosed with tendinitis and he is now on a special fitness programme to prevent it flaring up again.

"It's something the doctors say I have to manage because once you get this problem it stays with you," he says. "It's the patella tendon. It's different to most injuries. If you break something, that's easy. The bone or the ligament will heal. But the tendon is more complicated. It has to burn itself out. Sometimes it takes a few months, sometimes a few years. It's something I have to manage, because there aren't a lot of answers."

And he has this to say on the story (which I correctly labelled rubbish) about his tardiness:

He is so dedicated to getting it right it is easy to understand why he is so aggrieved by the allegations about time-keeping. "Did anyone actually believe that?" he says. "I've got a good watch, a Swiss watch, and it's perfectly on time, thank you." Ferguson was also angry, describing it as "absolutely rubbish".

This story from The Telegraph puts Hargreaves performance on Wednesday into the context of our defeat by AC last season and the difference he could make.

Ian Ladyman in The Mail looks forward to the Barcelona game:

Barcelona versus Manchester United in the semi-final of the Champions League. It sounds sexy just saying it.

The two most adventurous teams in European football will come face to beautiful face with more at stake than ever before.

The Telegraph has Gary Neville's and Wes Brown's comments here, but the main reason I'm mentioning this report is for the bizarre use of the word infamous:

"I was in the 1999 squad but didn't play," Brown said of that infamous night against Bayern Munich at the Camp Nou nine years ago. "For me it would be great to get to another final, but this time play in it.

Why? Shouldn't that be "famous night"?