Michael Owen

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Tino's Machine Gun said:
Sorry but I completely disagree with those points. All the Newcastle fans I talked to were behind Owen and accepted the fact that he was always got injured until he got back to full fitness. Certainly I didn't know of anyone who was calling him a greedy bastard when he was injured.

It all changed for me during the relegation season, when he was disgracefully unprofessional and his body language and performances on the pitch told you everything. This was from a man who was supposed to be our captain and an experienced senior player for the squad to look up to. He was so **** that he ended up getting dropped, it's all well and good blaming the players around him who were admittedly crap too, but he just looked like he couldn't be arsed I thought.

This is not to mention his comments since leaving Newcastle, saying that he'd rather be on the bench every week at a big club than playing every week for a 'small' club (obviously referring to us considering the rest of the places he's been). After we nursed him back to health repeatedly for 3 years and paid him £110k per week for the privilege, he should be showing us a lot more respect than that. He's more interested in his stables and racehorses than football I reckon - seem to remember footage of him crying tears of joy after one of his horses won some cup, haven't seen him that impassioned for quite a while.

This video pretty much sums up the man.

[video=youtube;WqOxNspUPyE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqOxNspUPyE[/video]
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This video actually makes me seeth with anger. What a complete ****. Like Southhall says at the end, the kid is only 13 and looks close to tears, no need to rub it in like that.
 
The thing is with Owen, he loves to come across all down to earth, but he's had people telling him he's brilliant since he was a kid. He was rich beyond his wildest dreams before he was out of his teens. He doesn't have the first clue about living in the real world or how to deal with real people.
 
Tino's Machine Gun said:
Sorry but I completely disagree with those points. All the Newcastle fans I talked to were behind Owen and accepted the fact that he was always got injured until he got back to full fitness. Certainly I didn't know of anyone who was calling him a greedy bastard when he was injured.

It all changed for me during the relegation season, when he was disgracefully unprofessional and his body language and performances on the pitch told you everything. This was from a man who was supposed to be our captain and an experienced senior player for the squad to look up to. He was so **** that he ended up getting dropped, it's all well and good blaming the players around him who were admittedly crap too, but he just looked like he couldn't be arsed I thought.

This is not to mention his comments since leaving Newcastle, saying that he'd rather be on the bench every week at a big club than playing every week for a 'small' club (obviously referring to us considering the rest of the places he's been). After we nursed him back to health repeatedly for 3 years and paid him £110k per week for the privilege, he should be showing us a lot more respect than that. He's more interested in his stables and racehorses than football I reckon - seem to remember footage of him crying tears of joy after one of his horses won some cup, haven't seen him that impassioned for quite a while.

This video pretty much sums up the man.

[video=youtube;WqOxNspUPyE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqOxNspUPyE[/video]
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Never seen that before, what a dick...
 
biggeordiedave said:
You'd expect a professional to encourage an aspiring footballer, but not Michael Owen, what a dick.
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To be fair, he was only 18 or so in that video. He was a teenager who had been told by everyone after scoring THAT goal against Argentina that he was virtually unplayable and was going to go on to surpass Bobby Charlton and be England's greatest ever player and lead England to a world cup while winning all sorts of personal accolades. Its easy enough for us to sit here and say we wouldn't have done stuff like that, but if everyone is constantly telling you how great you are then its quite hard not to become a bit arrogant and cocky, especially when you're still a teenager, its why loads of talented youngsters never go from potential to greatness because its hard not to get caught up in your own hype and take your eye off the ball.

He's still a thunderous **** though.
 
Lucaaas said:
To be fair, he was only 18 or so in that video. He was a teenager who had been told by everyone after scoring THAT goal against Argentina that he was virtually unplayable and was going to go on to surpass Bobby Charlton and be England's greatest ever player and lead England to a world cup while winning all sorts of personal accolades. Its easy enough for us to sit here and say we wouldn't have done stuff like that, but if everyone is constantly telling you how great you are then its quite hard not to become a bit arrogant and cocky, especially when you're still a teenager, its why loads of talented youngsters never go from potential to greatness because its hard not to get caught up in your own hype and take your eye off the ball.

He's still a thunderous **** though.
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I would still expect a level of professionalism and for him not to take the piss out of a young kid trying to play football up against a first team Premier League striker...

You can just tell he was the kid at school that wouldn't pass the ball.
 
cabluigi said:
This video actually makes me seeth with anger. What a complete ****. Like Southhall says at the end, the kid is only 13 and looks close to tears, no need to rub it in like that.
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Looks close to tears? It's just banter and the kid knows that. The fact that he saved two 1 on 1's from one of the worlds best strikers at the time may just be consolation.
 
Arfa's Left Foot said:
Looks close to tears? It's just banter and the kid knows that. The fact that he saved two 1 on 1's from one of the worlds best strikers at the time may just be consolation.
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But despite that, do you disagree with those who think that he comes across as an awful little prick in that video?
 
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