Well done United in winning the Carling Cup today. Whomever the opposition (no reflection on Wigan who have been great this season) to win a cup final 4-0 is a very good day at the office.

However, as every good United fan knows the Carling Cup is not exactly the trophy United were aiming for this season. Not so long ago, even if you were the tea lady you were guaranteed a game in the League Cup at some point if the team survived long enough.

Still, United (like every other club over the past four years or so) have actually been trying to win the competition in recent years, so this win was always on the cards.

The bigger question is whether this is the first success of a great new Fergie team, or the last of his great era with the club. To be honest the jury is still out on that one. Although the signs have not been promising of late, you can't argue that if it wasn't for a Russian with a lot of money, United would probably win the league this year (and last year too).

The old master still shows he has the ability to make a big decision (i.e. dropping Van Nistelrooy). This one has been coming for sometime, in that Saha has been the best United forward every time he came on the pitch and that Van Nistelrooy's goals have been covering up the fact that he is not the player he once was. I know a striker is judged on goals and for that you could never knock the Dutchman, but a few years back his overall play was that of the best front man in the world, now it seems the brain and not the body is main part of his game. Like the top class player he is the memory will keep him there or there abouts for a few years yet.

More to come on this subject, but to sum up, you feel that Fergie needed this win today to give him the chance to create that one last great team. Has the old master still got it in him? You wouldn't bet against it, but as I say, the jury is still out.