Guest Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 I'm confused about these goal scoring records he'd have broken, given that at his peak he never broke 20 league goals in a season. He had 40 goals for England, I don't think it's unreasonable to think he'd have smashed Charlton's record if he hadn't been injury prone. He also had 118 Premier League goals by 25, Shearer had 104 at that age as a comparison (that's including his goals in the old First Division). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEEJ Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 Saw Michael Gowen and spent a good few minutes wondering who the fuck he was until I clicked on the thread. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 I'm confused about these goal scoring records he'd have broken, given that at his peak he never broke 20 league goals in a season. He had 40 goals for England, I don't think it's unreasonable to think he'd have smashed Charlton's record if he hadn't been injury prone. He also had 118 Premier League goals by 25, Shearer had 104 at that age as a comparison (that's including his goals in the old First Division). Yeah he didn't though, cos he's a crock who abused himself into an early retirement. Stupid boring little shite. Mashed that sprint button didn't he, the cunt. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEEJ Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEMTEX Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 RIP Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 RIP Got me hopes up there, ffs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ritchie Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 Sorry if it's a giggs but: OptaJoe @OptaJoe 2m 2005 - The final goal assist of Michael Owen's Premier League career came in December 2005. Distant. Is that the one to Shearer at West Ham? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 Sorry if it's a giggs but: OptaJoe @OptaJoe 2m 2005 - The final goal assist of Michael Owen's Premier League career came in December 2005. Distant. Didn't start and score in a PL game in the last 4 and a half years of his career - in the PL. Proper poacher, like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFEE Posted May 25, 2013 Share Posted May 25, 2013 I'm confused about these goal scoring records he'd have broken, given that at his peak he never broke 20 league goals in a season. He had 40 goals for England, I don't think it's unreasonable to think he'd have smashed Charlton's record if he hadn't been injury prone. He also had 118 Premier League goals by 25, Shearer had 104 at that age as a comparison (that's including his goals in the old First Division). Shearer had worse injuries... But he managed to remodel his game... Basically the difference between him and the pretenders to his throne... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted May 25, 2013 Share Posted May 25, 2013 Shearer was just technically a far better footballer and a far better man. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaylorJ_01 Posted May 25, 2013 Share Posted May 25, 2013 Shearer was just technically a far better footballer and a far better man. Even mentioning them in the same sentence feels wrong. Shearer is 10 times the man. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LesPaul Posted May 25, 2013 Share Posted May 25, 2013 Sorry if it's a giggs but: OptaJoe @OptaJoe 2m 2005 - The final goal assist of Michael Owen's Premier League career came in December 2005. Distant. Is that the one to Shearer at West Ham? I think so yeah. The false hope after that game :'( Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Moody Posted May 28, 2013 Share Posted May 28, 2013 michael owen @themichaelowen 30m Last seasons Premier League was pretty bland in my opinion. Granted, it was never going to live up to the season before with Aguero's last michael owen @themichaelowen 29m minute title clincher but apart from Swansea and West Brom doing slightly better than expected, the League table was pretty predictable. michael owen @themichaelowen 26m The League was over at half way and 2 relegation places were done and dusted. For the last month the only interesting battle was for 4th. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted May 28, 2013 Share Posted May 28, 2013 You wrote the book on bland, you fucking megacunt. (Not you, Alan). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEMTEX Posted May 28, 2013 Share Posted May 28, 2013 michael owen @themichaelowen 30m Last seasons Premier League was pretty bland in my opinion. Granted, it was never going to live up to the season before with Aguero's last michael owen @themichaelowen 29m minute title clincher but apart from Swansea and West Brom doing slightly better than expected, the League table was pretty predictable. michael owen @themichaelowen 26m The League was over at half way and 2 relegation places were done and dusted. For the last month the only interesting battle was for 4th. That's some pretty bleeding edge analysis he's got there. Consider me impressed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia Posted May 28, 2013 Share Posted May 28, 2013 BT Sport have landed a coup, for sure Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaylorJ_01 Posted May 28, 2013 Share Posted May 28, 2013 He is genuinely holding me back from getting BT Sport. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted May 28, 2013 Share Posted May 28, 2013 And from this day forward the 12-13 season will be known as the Michael Owen season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Moody Posted May 28, 2013 Share Posted May 28, 2013 His patter has well and truly persuaded me not to bother with the BT Sport thing. Although I'll still end up streaming it and hating him all the same. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tgarve Posted June 28, 2013 Share Posted June 28, 2013 http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/michael-owen-interview-really-enjoyed-4729328 Michael Owen signed on the dotted line for Newcastle United with the genuine belief he was about to become a modern-day Entertainer on Tyneside. Owen admits that had Liverpool matched Newcastle’s £16m bid to Real Madrid then he could easily have returned to Anfield and the club where he became a global icon. However, it would have been easy for the legendary England striker to stay at Real Madrid and see out the last three years of his contract in La Liga. After all, every day in Madrid he would look to one corner and see Roberto Carlos then to another and see Ronaldo, share a coffee with Zinedine Zidane and Luis Figo or break bread with Iker Casillas, Raul or David Beckham. Indeed, when Freddy Shepherd ploughed all of Newcastle’s funds into signing Owen – then 25 and seemingly with his best years in front of him – he was signing one of the best players on the planet. It is a scenario that United fans have almost forgotten about. But just eight years ago, more than 15,000 fans turned up at St James’ Park – just to see Owen sign for the Magpies. If it was a statement of intent from Newcastle, for Owen it was the chance to play alongside one of his idols, Alan Shearer, and take over the responsibility of bringing goals to Newcastle. To the outsider looking in, Owen’s interviews on his career appear to be unkind to Newcastle. Yet Owen wanted to put the record straight with the Chronicle and believes that whenever he has spoken in a good light about the club, the area and the fans, it has sometimes been omitted due to his association with Liverpool, Manchester United and Real Madrid. Looking back on the day he arrived in similar fashion to Shearer’s own big move almost a decade earlier, Owen told the Chronicle in an extensive and candid interview: “It was a dream start. It has hurt me over the years since I left that every question that is asked to me is always a negative one about Newcastle. “I am always trying to say positive things about Newcastle – because that’s what I thought about my time up there. “A lot of negativity came out and the bandwagon rolled on. “Whenever I say anything decent nobody wants to write it. “So I mean it when I say it was an enjoyable time for me. “From the first minute I arrived with the the amount of people that were there to greet me when I signed, it was fantastic. It was unbelievable. “I got off to a great start in that sense.” Owen’s home debut ended in a flat 1-1 draw with Fulham on September 10, 2005. But a week later he and Shearer had lift-off at Ewood Park in a 3-0 win. Much was made of Shearer’s first face-to-face meeting with Rovers star Craig Bellamy since a bitter series of SMS messages from the Welshman. Yet by the end of the game it was a case of ‘Craig who?’ as Shearer and Owen got off to a flier. Owen, in a team with the likes of Shearer, Charles N’Zogbia, Shay Given and Emre, said: “After signing it was an absolute dream in many ways. “Leading up to the turn of the year, one of the big pulls of going up (to Newcastle) was playing alongside Alan Shearer. “There were plenty of good players in the team at the time. “I signed when we were in the bottom three, but there were only three or four games gone. “That didn’t worry me. “I signed, and then in my second game away at Blackburn, me and Alan basically went on a great run and scored loads of goals together. “We rocketed up the league and everything from my point of view was just as I had hoped in many ways.” Indeed, Newcastle were in 10th spot when Owen grabbed a hat- trick in a 4-2 win over West Ham at Upton Park in December, but trouble was around the corner. United went to Spurs on the last day of the year in 2005 and with World Cup year around the corner it was looking good for Owen. Yet the 2-0 loss wasn’t the worst thing to happen at White Hart Lane that day. Owen reflected: “I was trying to nip in behind a defender and score a goal but Paul Robinson (Spurs keeper) landed on my foot. “It put a crack in my fifth metatarsal. “As soon as it happened I felt a real pop. “I fractured a bone and knew it wasn’t going to be a quick injury (to overcome).” Off the field Owen admits he was settled on Tyneside and said: “I was buying a house up there. “Alan put myself and my wife and eldest child up at his house. “I found a house of my own and it all got taken care of pretty quickly. “It was great and I settled down really quickly. “Everything was going perfectly for a good few months. “We were in the top 10 at the turn of the year and then obviously at White Hart Lane came that fateful day. “I always look back on it and think it was a major turning point of my career because it led on to so many other things.” Still doesnt get it The fans don't disagree it started well, when things were tough though, you were hiding Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenBartonCentrePartin Posted June 28, 2013 Share Posted June 28, 2013 "Michael Owen signed on the dotted line for Newcastle United with the genuine belief he was about to become a modern-day Entertainer on Tyneside." were you aware we were managed by Graeme fucking Souness, you utter melon? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted June 28, 2013 Share Posted June 28, 2013 So he had a few good months, the journo still got talk of England in there (I bet Owen directed that one) and he still doesn't realise he was a spineless, gutless bottle job and blames a fracture on it all basically. Brand new information. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LesPaul Posted June 28, 2013 Share Posted June 28, 2013 However, it would have been easy for the legendary England striker to stay at Real Madrid and see out the last three years of his contract in La Liga. Away from his precious horses though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted June 28, 2013 Share Posted June 28, 2013 This dude is so needy. No one at Newcastle likes you. Deal with it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK-421 Posted June 28, 2013 Share Posted June 28, 2013 However, it would have been easy for the legendary England striker to stay at Real Madrid and see out the last three years of his contract in La Liga. Away from his precious horses though. Ultimately, it was all about England too, wasn't it? He could have stayed, being a bit-part player at Real, but it would have been at the expense of his England place. That's the main reason he returned to the Premier League. Money & England are the only reasons he joined us, basically. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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