I will forever regret having his shirt signed by Sir Alex in 2009. Stupid, stupid, stupid. 
Michael Owen has always been a cringe monster
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik and Imran hold a long overdue conversation about United's awful league form with 1 win in 7. They discuss a disappointing draw at Bournemouth, a not so disappointing draw against Liverpool and a crushing defeat at Chelsea - Is time nearly over for Erik Ten Hag?
Then in a special second half of the pod, Nik welcomes Natalie ( https://twitter.com/natalie_17) to discuss the fortunes of Manchester United Women as they booked a place in the FA Cup Final after a historic first ever win vs. Chelsea.
Poor sod.I will forever regret having his shirt signed by Sir Alex in 2009. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
It's not right but it's OK!Not familiar with that one, but are you familiar with Serge Gainsbourg's "I want to feck her" sitting next to Whitney Houston? He did cringe in a certain style
Going to doncaster:
Advising her on social media:
Advising her on social media:
How can this be real life convo and not some b teen movie
Reads like something by Will from Inbetweeners.
"Your past. Your present. Your post with your tits out." has been living rent free in my head since this news came out.
Michael Owen, obviously.
Maybe his Birthday's are like 50 Cent's.
I’m sure all the England players from the Golden Generation want England to lose.
England might win, they might not.
“Whichever team scores more goals usually wins.”
“To stay in the game, you have to stay in the game.”
He was never outright top scorer. Never outscored Yorke in a season. Never scored more in a season than Fowler did. Or Ole.
He was a truly exciting talent but nowhere near the level he’s portrayed to have been. The Argentina goal added a sheen to a reputation that’s stuck.
Sancho, Foden and Greenwood are all better footballers than Owen was.
EDIT : Poor language. I mean he never beat those guys best season total
You're forgetting the CF premium. 18-20 year old Owen would've gone for over £100m in the 2018-2020 market.
Who's we?
I noticed English/Brits love to say the word absolutely and somehow this word has become so mainstream used in the English language by anyone. Just find it funny though.
I absolutely do this. Got called out on it the other day on here. Probably by you.
I don’t doubt that he would have been coveted for crazy money at 18-20. But there’s a rose tinted element to how people see him.
I believe Ole had a better game/goal return than Owen. This despite a boatload of substitute appearances. He was a really good goal scorer but the early years hype saw him surf a really weird wave for a long time.
For sure, however if a 18-20 year old displayed what Owen did today people would go crazy. Owen never lived up to his potential/hype, however before you know what a player becomes, people are always going to go crazy over them.
A good comparison for me with Owen is with a player today is Felix.
A young Jamie Vardy, if Vardy was actually any good as a young player.
297apps 158 goals 49 assists he scored 28 in 2002 which is higher than any Ole total and equal to York there abouts. None of them are even close. He was a far more dynamic player than Greenwood and could finish just was well with his right peg and more variety in this finishing which included chips and dinks. I am inclined to believe you never saw him play and come from the newer generation?
I’m probably older than you Stacks. I saw him live a bunch of times, including his late star turn against Arsenal in Cardiff (Scouse mates dragged me there). He was a good centre forward but massively overrated.
I just rechecked Ole. 529apps 282goals. They’re about quits.
I’m not downplaying his record. But I’ll happily declare he’s a Waitrose Jermain Defoe.
He was a really good centre forward with some devilish purple patches.
Edit : I based my prior post numbers on League Goals so we may be out of whack there. I’ve had this dumb debate with Scouse mates before but a while ago. I could be wrong on the data.
you are including his Molde and Clausengan which is league 2 in Norway For Man Utd Ole was
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Owen career disrupted by rampant injuries. He rarely completed more than 30 league games
You should read Shearer's piece in the Athletic.
Fair go on that. It’s a far lower standard. I didn’t interrogate beyond a Google search.
I think the basis of my point remains. [Took a quick look at his Wiki to quote the following]
People vastly overrate Owen in my opinion. He was joint top scorer with Dion Dublin one year. Hasslebaink in another. He never broke 20 in a PL season.
I’ll maybe accept that having my closest 3 friends between the ages of 8 and 20 being Liverpool fans probably saw me spend Owens whole career playing his exploits down in school and pub debates. But I still don’t think he was that big a deal.
He seems to irritate people for some reason but denying he was a real quality player at his peak is a bizarre rock to die on.
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Some classic replies to this.
seems like he is that type of person who somehow always manages to turn around the conversation unrelated to him to be all about himself.
A complete melt.
Me, myself and Emma.
Surprised he didn't tweet "Congrats Emma Raducanu on being 68th in Sports Personality of the year. I came 45th so i'm the 45th best British Sports Personality in the world. Just saying"
I think im the only United supporter that really likes Owen. Hes funny.
That's more of a Piers Morgan line.
Just shows how flawed this award is that a humanoid with zero personality can win it.
We call them black dogs round my way, it doesnt matter if you have a black dog, they have a blacker one.
He’s a narcissist and completely unaware of it. The lead character in the movie of life and when anything happens he thinks “Interesting, how does this fit around Michael Owen?”