Manchester United striker Michael Owen says he won't be fazed facing former club Liverpool this season.
"I used to play for Liverpool and I know a couple of the players, but there have been a lot of changes there," he said. "I am quite mature about football. I don't feel the need to react if people sing a song about me. Call me boring but it is not in my make-up."
There is a certain irony in the shift of opinion on Owen's career that has taken place since his Old Trafford move was confirmed.
From being a washed-up old has-been, destined for the scrap yard, the 29-year-old is now on the cusp of a complete rejuvenation, gone from Phil Brown's Hull to Ferguson's United.
It is quite a transformation although, as ever, the truth is far more mundane.
"There are some clubs from whom it is quite good if they say they want to sign you," he said. "It gives their fans a lift to think their team is going in for a player like Michael Owen.
"But I could have gone to a number of other clubs who were doing things much more quietly.
"And, in the end, the one man who in world football who you would want a good opinion from is the one man who wanted to sign me."