Owen the hero as England do enough

Azerbaijan 0 England 1

But on a wild and windy night on a greasy pitch and amid the trickiest of conditions England did just enough to earn the tightest of 1-0 victories against lowly Azerbaijan.

For that, in a week in which David Beckham demonstrated his stupidity over that infamous yellow card trick, they had to thank a stand-in captain whose responsibility has never been in doubt in the shape of Michael Owen.