Gerrard's cross from the right wing was met by the soaring figure of Carroll as he got in between Andreas Granqvist and Mellberg to power a header past Isaksson.
Some have called it the equivalent of Betamax but others point to soaring sales figures as evidence it remains the future of radio listening.
The answer is they are soaring viewers figures for Only Connect, the toughest quiz on television, which began as a BBC4 obscurity and has now overtaken BBC1 in the ratings.
Nokia, which earns 80percentt of its revenue from the mobile handsets that are continuing to boom with Europe's much-vaunted wireless revolution, produced soaring growth figures last week that bolstered its stock price.
With the number of claims growing, and jury verdicts for cancerous and noncancerous claims soaring, those figures will skyrocket, according to Tillinghast-Towers Perrin, an actuarial firm that has studied the issue.
But its supporters, including the BBC, Channel 4 and other commercial operators, believe soaring sales figures, rising audiences and the imminent launch of new stations from Channel 4 and others point to a bright future.
Early signs were of a collapse in new bookings to the island amid reports of soaring crime figures and a homicide rate that, per head of the resident population, was three times that of New York.
Another former Paris étoile, Manuel Legris, head of the Vienna State Opera Ballet, reported soaring attendance figures at the end of his first season, which culminated in June 2011 in a gala honouring the late Rudolf Nureyev, holder of an Austrian passport and Legris's own mentor.
Oil-producing countries such as Angola and Nigeria, and even war-torn Sudan, have supplied the soaring growth figures, and much of the foreign investment has gone into extractive industries.Moreover, there is a reasonable chance that Africa may survive the current world financial crisis less bruised and battered than some other parts of the world.
We know certain things: the Fed wants to be sure that a 50% plunge in the stock market and a big drop in housing values, along with a recession and soaring jobless figures, won't lead to the collapse of banks.
