Owen becomes fourth all-time best England scorer

Michael Owen's brace of goals in the European Championship qualifier against Russia (3-0) at Wembley last September, sent him up to fourth place in the all-England scorers' list on the international scene.

Owen, who has been capped 89 times, can still become the best ever marksman for his country. The top places at present read:

49 − Bobby Charlton
48 − Gary Lineker
44 − Jimmy Greaves
40 − Michael Owen

The Newcastle United striker still has to find the net under new manager Fabio Capello. Owen's aim is to reach Bobby Charlton's record of 49 goals.

Owen will always treasure the hat-trick he scored at Munich's Olympic Stadium where England humbled Germany 5-1, shortly after Sven-Goran Eriksson took over as manager, on September 1, 2001. His other career treble came against Colombia (May 31, 2005) in a friendly at the Giants Stadium in New Jersey, US.

He netted twice in three games, vs Slovakia (home) 2-1, Argentina (neutral Geneva) 3-2 and last year against Russia at home.

Owen's other goals came on 28 other occasions. He netted his first England goal on May 27, 1998 in Casablanca in a 1-0 win in a friendly against Morocco. At the time, Glenn Hoddle was manager. At the age of 18 years 164 days, Owen became England's youngest goal-scorer of that time.

Other new records and feats in the English game (2007-08):
Ghana midfielder Sulley Muntari joined Portsmouth for a club record fee of £7m from Udinese.

Other club record fees include:
Spanish forward Fernando Torres from Atletico Madrid to Liverpool for £24.5m.
Robert Earnshaw, forward from Norwich City to Derby County for £3.5m.
Darrent Bent, forward from Charlton Athletic to Tottenham Hotspur for £16.5m.
Ivory Coast's midfielder Emerse Fae from Nantes to Reading for £2.5m.
Forward John Utaka, of Nigeria, from Rennes to Portsmouth for £7m.
Forward Peter Halmosi, of Hungary, from Debreceni to Plymouth for £400,000.

Colchester United broke their transfer record twice in a matter of hours after bringing Mark Yeates and Clive Platt to Layer Road. Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Yeates signed for £275,000, eclipsing the highest fee previously paid for the signings of Neil Gregory and Adrian Coote.

Yeates's record fee was then superseded by Platt who arrived from Milton Keynes for £300,000.

Celtic smashed the transfer record involving two Scottish clubs after capturing highly-rated midfielder Scott Brown from Hibernian for £4.4m. The hefty price-tag surpassed the £4 million Rangers paid Dundee United for the services of Duncan Ferguson back in 1994, a British transfer record at that time.

Attendance record

The 57,857 crowd that watched Hearts against Barcelona in a 1-3 friendly defeat at Murrayfield, the home of Scottish rugby, set a new attendance record for a Hearts game in the capital.

Craig Gordon's move from Hearts to Sunderland for £8m is the most expensive transfer for a goalkeeper in British league history.

After the 2-1 win at Aston Villa, Liverpool become the fourth Premiership club to amass 1,000 points and more, following in the footsteps of Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea.

At Stamford Bridge, sequel to Chelsea's 3-2 win over Birmingham, the Londoners set a new record of 64 successive home league games without defeat. The Blues shatter Liverpool's feat of 63 consecutive matches.

In the home 1-0 win over Derby County (August 15), Manchester City score their first league goal at the City of Manchester Stadium since January 1.

Middlesbrough forward Yakubu joins Everton for a club record fee of £11.25m.

With only two points gained from their first three Premiership matches, Manchester United make their worst start to a campaign in 15 years.

Michael Owen ends a 20-month wait (mostly through injuries) for his first goal in Newcastle's 2-0 win at home to Barnsley in the second round of the League Cup.

Watford sign West Bromwich striker Nathan Ellington for a club record fee of £4.25m.

Caleb Forlan, striker, moves from Wigan to Hull City for a club record fee of £1m.

James Milner, of Newcastle, sets a new England U-21 appearance record of 30 calls, surpassing Liverpool goalkeeper Scott Carson.

Scotland beat France 1-0 (James McFadden) in a European Championship qualifier in Paris. It was the Scots' first victory over the French for the first time since 1950, when they won the same scoreline. Allan Brown, of East Fife, scored the winner on that occasion.

A record six clubs from Great Britain contest the group phase of the 2007-08 Champions League: Arsenal, Chelsea, Celtic, Liverpool, Manchester United and Rangers.

After a turnover of over £200 million, Arsenal are declared the world richest club, ahead of Real Madrid and Manchester United.

A poll conducted by property consultants Drivers Jonas Sport shows that Liverpool, followed by Celtic and Portsmouth, are the clubs with the best stadium atmosphere.

Top Premiership scoreline

The 7-4 scoreline by which Portsmouth beat Reading at Fratton Park is a Premier League record, surpassing Blackburn's 7-2 victory over Sheffield Wednesday in 1998 and the nine Manchester United put past Ipswich in 1995.

Rangers' 3-0 trimming of Lyon at the Edmond Machtens Stadium is the biggest ever score by a Scottish club in the Champions League on the away front.

After the 4-1 win by Manchester United against Middlesbrough at Old Trafford, the Red Devils emerge victorious by four goals for a fourth successive time, a feat last achieved in 1907.

The 6-0 defeat of Manchester City by Chelsea at Stamford Bridge is the Londoners' biggest win in the Premier League in 10 years since they defeated Barnsley 6-0 away in August 1997.

It is also City's worst upset in top flight since they went down by the same scoreline at Liverpool in 1995.

Liverpool's emphatic 8-0 victory over Besiktas at Anfield is a Champions League record, beating the 7-0 thumping by Arsenal at home to Slavia Prague last season, and Juve's same margin of victory in a match against Olympiakos in December 2003.

The win is also Liverpool's biggest in Europe in 27 years, when they defeated Finland's Oulu Palloseura 10-1 at Anfield in the first round of the European Cup.

David Healy, of Fulham and Northern Ireland, creates a European Championship qualifying record, scoring the winning goal in his nation's 2-1 victory over Denmark in Belfast.

His 13th netting of the campaign topples the previous scoring feat set by Croatia's Davor Suker in qualifying for Euro 1996.