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One a scale of 1-5, how excited are you for Michael Owen on TV every week?  

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  1. 1. One a scale of 1-5, how excited are you for Michael Owen on TV every week?

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I know the Liverpool fans view him as a c*cksucker too, but I wonder what the Man U fans think?

 

Pretty much think he's a solid lad who gives his best and is happy to help out ... which is pretty bloody strange given what we know and have seen. No-one really talks about him ... either negative or positive unless asked.

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The only thing of note he's done in 2 years is score the winner vs City in the 4-3 so I'd imagine that while they don't have any massive feelings towards him, what little ones they do have will be positive. He'll be a forgotten man as far his Utd career is concerned when it's over though.

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Guest neesy111

The proper United fans I know (those who come from Manchester) hate the little shit as he's played for Liverpool.  The rest of the glory cunting lot who don't know about the hatred between MUFC and Liverpool like him from what I've observed.

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I'm confused. If two twats are bickering and one is pretty funny with it, he's still a twat isn't he?

 

On the twat scale Owen actually is more twatty than Piers Morgan, which is saying a lot as Peirs Morgans twattiness is legendary.  Owen is more of a cnut than a twat though.

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The only thing of note he's done in 2 years is score the winner vs City in the 4-3 so I'd imagine that while they don't have any massive feelings towards him, what little ones they do have will be positive. He'll be a forgotten man as far his Utd career is concerned when it's over though.

 

Hattrick against Wolfsburg probably as well.

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Guest thenorthumbrian

The proper United fans I know (those who come from Manchester) hate the little s*** as he's played for Liverpool.  The rest of the glory c***ing lot who don't know about the hatred between MUFC and Liverpool like him from what I've observed.

 

Proper "United" fans around here come from Newcastle and the surrounding area.

 

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Guest toonlass

Ok, ok but apart from the Man City winner, the Wolfsburg hat-trick what has he ever done for them?

 

The roads, sanitation, education, the aqueducts.......

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Ok, ok but apart from the Man City winner, the Wolfsburg hat-trick what has he ever done for them?

 

The roads, sanitation, education, the aqueducts.......

 

Yeah, yeah good point. The city was a mess before the sanitation

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22/APR/11 

 

Why Michael Owen deserved everything that came his way - Scott Wilson, Northern Echo.

WHEN people discover I'm a sports writer, there's generally one thing they want to know. 'Who's the nicest person you've dealt with, and who's the person you've had least time for?'

Having spent seven-and-a-half years on The Northern Echo, there's plenty of people that fall into the first camp so it's incredibly hard to give an answer.

 

The second part of the query, however, is rather easier to respond to. One person stands out a mile - and to my mind, he got exactly what he deserved on Tuesday night.

 

"I knew I would get booed as that's what a lot of fans do," said Michael Owen, after his substitute appearance at St James' Park was accompanied by a chorus of catcalls. "But if they knew the facts, then they may have a different opinion."

 

Okay Michael, well here are some facts to be going on with.

 

In his four years at Newcastle United, Owen earned just short of £5m. He scored 30 goals and, in his final season, was unable to prevent the Magpies being relegated into the Championship.

 

He was also thoroughly objectionable from first moment to last.

 

The days of journalists and footballers rubbing shoulders as equals are long gone, but in my experience, the vast majority of players at Newcastle, Sunderland and Middlesbrough have done their best to assist the local and regional press.

 

They might not like us - particularly when they've just been given four out of ten on a Monday morning - but they accept that papers like The Northern Echo are a valuable link to the supporters that pay their wages.

 

Not Owen. From the moment he arrived in the North-East, Newcastle's record signing made it quite clear that he had absolutely no interest in speaking to the local media.

 

Interview requests were repeatedly turned down. Post-match questions were assiduously ignored. The entire regional press pack, not just The Northern Echo, were treated with a mixture of arrogance and contempt.

 

When Kevin Keegan made Owen captain, we thought things would get better. Instead, they became worse.

 

As Newcastle careered towards the Championship, their skipper became the invisible man, unable to affect things on the pitch because of injury, unwilling to display the leadership that was required off the park.

 

Gradually, supporters sensed an indifference to the club's plight, a lack of empathy for Newcastle United as an institution and a refusal to even begin to understand what the club means to the city and its surrounding region.

 

I could give dozens of examples of Owen being objectionable, but I think this one sums it up best.

 

Ahead of a derby game with Sunderland, we discovered that Owen had played in the same district youth team as Danny Collins.

 

I headed off to North Wales and interviewed the pair's teachers and some of the coaches who had guided them through their careers in youth football.

 

A few days later, I spoke to Collins, who could not have been more helpful as he reminisced about his youth, dug out a few personal old photographs and conveyed a great respect for the volunteers who had helped him as a youngster.

 

The hope was that Owen would do the same. Three interview requests went in to the player, his agent and Newcastle's media office. All three were turned down.

 

Even when we promised to ignore anything relating to the derby, and offered to only ask questions relating to his time in the same team as Collins, our pleas were rebuffed.

 

A day before the piece was due to run, my colleague, Paul Fraser, spotted Owen in the car park at Newcastle's training ground.

 

He introduced himself to the striker - four years on Tyneside, and he still didn't know who any of the local reporters were - and outlined the piece we had prepared.

 

"We'd just like to ask you about some of the people who worked with you at that time," he said. "Do you remember a guy called Cledwyn Ashford who managed your old Deesside football team? What impact did he have on your career?"

 

Owen looked Paul up and down. "No impact at all". And with that, his car door slammed shut.

 

That's why the booing on Tuesday night was one of my favourite moments of the season so far.

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On 9 May 2007, Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd reacted angrily to reports that Owen could move on to another club at the end of the 2006–07 season, due to a release clause in his contract. A report in The Times newspaper suggested Owen could be available for less than £10million and could be a target for the likes of Chelsea, Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal. Despite these reports, Shepherd warned Owen "to show some loyalty" and warned him that "none of the big four clubs want him."[36] However, in a video posted on YouTube, a group of Liverpool fans asked Shepherd if they could re-sign Owen, he responded by saying that he would "carry Owen back to Liverpool" himself.

 

Shepherd summed up the feeling for owen by the fans and the club that day.

 

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Guest johnson293

Another day another drug test! That's twice in 5 days. Today it was UEFA. I presume they're testing all the Champions League semi finalists.

 

:lol:

 

Played 14mins this season in that competition. What a wanker. :lol:

 

Was a waste of time him having that UEFA drug test then, eh???  :mackems:

 

:iamatwat:

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@themichaelowen - Better to play 25mins in a good team rather than 90mins every week in a struggling team

 

c***!

 

Who said that to him?

 

Owen said that to Piers Morgan.

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@themichaelowen - Better to play 25mins in a good team rather than 90mins every week in a struggling team

 

c***!

 

Who said that to him?

 

Owen said that to Piers Morgan.

 

Two utter cunts howling in the darkness at one another.

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