Michael Owen (now retired)

[Dyeyzzon]

Just remembered that my first ever toon kit with printing has this c***'s name on the back.

[Heake]

Even Kenny Rogers advocated violence in certain circumstances.

 

if not now...when?

[BrettNUFC]

I actually think he might knock a few goals in for these like. Think it's a no lose gamble if it's a pay as you play deal. If anything Owen just won't be getting paid.

[Raconteur]

Id like to see him anally violated by an over zealous elephant.

[GuyP]

I want to see them just lob balls at him...as if its Crouch still playing, so just defenders powering 200mph balls at his head, and for the crowd to jeer him for not being able to hold the ball up...

[Guest firetotheworks]

I'd like what happened to David Ames in Vanilla Sky to happen to him, on loop, until he died of heart break.

 

[Pilko]

I'd like what happened to David Ames in Vanilla Sky to happen to him, on loop, until he died of heart break.

 

pure poetry. Best suggestion so far, actually.

[Mugatu]

If they can't add to their premier league squad, I hope they give him the job of handing Rory Delap a towel to dry the ball for throw-ins.

[Ted Maul]

I'd like what happened to David Ames in Vanilla Sky to happen to him, on loop, until he died of heart break.

 

:lol:

[STM]

They won't even play him man.

 

Oh how much I would love to see him schooled by Colo. Two contrasting pro's if ever I have seen it.

[Decky]

Liverpool, Real Madrid, Newcastle, Man Utd....... Stoke.

 

[Guest neesy111]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19487807

 

[Jack Flash]

http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,92830.msg3909807.html#msg3909807

[Haz]

Michael Owen unveiled to Stoke City physiotherapists

 

Stoke City’s new signing, Michael Owen, has been unveiled in front of Stoke City’s team of physiotherapists as he bids to secure a regular place on their treatment table.

 

Owen, who left Man United in May, revealed he was keen to play a key part in Stoke City’s injury list.

 

“I’m really looking forward to working with Stoke’s Medical staff,” he said

 

“I can’t wait to not be fit enough to get started.”

 

When asked what Stoke City fans can expect from him, the former Liverpool and Real Madrid striker revealed that he was fully committed to being unable to show them what he can do.

 

“Stoke have a great set of fans and a great stadium,” he enthused.

 

“I’m sure I’ll become closely acquainted with both of them as I spend most of my time sat in the stands”

Michael Owen signs for Stoke

 

Stoke’s manager, Tony Pulis, revealed that the signing of Owen will provide him with extra options.

 

“Not having Michael available for selection will definitely give me something extra in post-match interviews,” he said.

 

“Bemoaning my lack of options up front due to injuries will be essential to my success this season.”

 

Stoke have revealed that official photographs confirming the signing of Owen could be put on hold for up to three months after he dislocated his shoulder trying to lift a club scarf above his head.

 

The club’s Head Physio, Dave Watson, said: “We hope that Michael will be able to resume light scarf lifting by the end of November.”

 

“If all goes to plan he could be able to fully lift the scarf above his head by the New Year.”

 

“It’ll be like a new signing.”

 

Read more: http://newsthump.com/2012/09/05/michael-owen-unveiled-to...

[gbandit]

“If all goes to plan he could be able to fully lift the scarf above his head by the New Year.”

[Guest Stephen927]

Break a leg, cunt.

[Superior Acuña]

Hope he has a nightmare. Maybe he'll actually arse though if it's be only way he gets paid.  And by the way, I don't think he's greedy especially.  Loads of players are greedy, he's something worse, gutless and lacking ambition. Captaining us to relegation and loving sitting on the bench at Manu just to get an undeserved medal are what he's about.  I think he'd take undeserved medal over money. He's just pathetic. May nick a few goals as he's obviously not totally shit, he just has a shit brain, and shit legs. 

 

Recall his best game in last season for us was 2'against stoke?

[Anderson]

Nicola McGeady ‏@BoylesportsNMG

Michael Owen is 4/6 to start less than 11 games for Stoke in the #EPL this season @Boylesports

 

[M4]

I'd like what happened to David Ames in Vanilla Sky to happen to him, on loop, until he died of heart break.

 

Fantastic that one 

[Superior Acuña]

I'd like what happened to David Ames in Vanilla Sky to happen to him, on loop, until he died of heart break.

 

Fantastic that one 

 

He'd have to have a heart for that to work. 

[Guest firetotheworks]

The idea is that he gains one and then has it immediately, persistently and perpetually destroyed.

[Dyeyzzon]

Just seen this. Well they're red and whites anyway.

 

http://i45.tinypic.com/34xi0k8.png

[NG32]

:lol:

[wormy]

Read this in 'I' while bored at work today. Just the headline alone told me I was in in for some hilarity. Such a disgustingly bad article.

 

James Lawton: Liverpool add a sorry postscript to under-appreciated Owen's abilities

 

Glenn Hoddle once announced that he was not a natural goalscorer – shortly before the 18-year-old illuminated the 1998 World Cup with the strike of the tournament. Gérard Houllier insisted he take his place in a rotation system which also included Emile Heskey. As England manager, Kevin Keegan preferred Andy Cole.

 

Rafa Benitez packed him off to Real Madrid virtually sight-unseen. He substantially wrecked himself on behalf of England at the 2006 World Cup in Germany, four years after the one in which he scored against Brazil a trademark goal that briefly, hauntingly, seemed to open up the way to the final. Then Fabio Capello, who at times seemed inclined to act as Wayne Rooney's glorified manservant, officially consigned him to the international junkyard.

 

If English football still has any powers of reflection, this week it had plenty of reasons for regrets about Michael Owen – and certainly not too few to mention. The latest surely came when Liverpool's owner John W Henry, in an extremely dull-witted communiqué on why his new manager Brendan Rodgers had been left so inadequately covered after dispatching Andy Carroll to West Ham United, explained that the club was no longer looking for "quick-fix" solutions.

 

That the former hero of Anfield and now free agent, the kid who once promised to smash every scoring record of Liverpool and England, had been passed on so that he could sign for Premier League rivals Stoke, was not universally condemned on Merseyside. Some pointed out that it could not be forgotten that he had spent the last three years of his dramatically diminished football life in the occasional service of Manchester United. Others said only time-expired sentiment would have justified Owen's return.

 

There is, however, another interpretation. It says that one man's sound business instinct is another's failure of imagination. The latter verdict is certainly the one favoured here. Another conclusion has to be that Owen was never quite appreciated for what he was – a natural scorer of astonishing precocity who ran so fast, so acutely, that English football, having quickly taken him for granted, too quickly discounted his unique value.

 

While David Beckham acquired the aura, Michael Owen did the business and not least on that unforgettable, humid night in Saint-Étienne when Beckham received one of the most gratuitous red cards in the history of football and Owen ran through Argentina for the goal which prompted Cesare Maldini, father of Paolo and then coach of Italy, to shake his head at the slowness of England's appreciation of quite what they had at their disposal Maldini's feeling was shared by all those dismayed by the sluggish pace of Hoddle's grooming of the wunderkind who had been a sensation in his first season in Premier League football.

 

Owen was on the bench for the opening game against Tunisia, coming on in the last five minutes of a laboured performance in Marseilles and had a little longer (17 minutes) in the second match, a 2-1 defeat by Romania. In that time Owen scored an equaliser and in added time smacked a shot against a post. It was hard to imagine a point ever made quite so emphatically on an international field by someone so young.

 

The argument that the best of Owen flew away when he lost that first, blinding turn of speed, is hard to counter but, like the old fighter who knows that his last asset will always be his punch, Owen continues to believe in his ability to score vital goals. This immutable fact only makes still more bizarre, at a time of aching transition, Liverpool's rejection of an old but potentially still effective icon. The mystery deepened during Sunday's defeat by Arsenal, when neither Luis Suarez nor Fabio Borini, ever looked likely to land a significant punch.

 

Would Owen have made any kind of difference? It is reasonable to believe so. He would have brought, certainly, a high level of professional pride and the last of the instincts of a natural-born predator. Owen was, of course, a great goal-scorer in whom maybe too many in English football did not believe in quite enough. It is sad that the club he served most brilliantly has added its name to the list.

[NG32]

Read this in 'I' while bored at work today. Just the headline alone told me I was in in for some hilarity. Such a disgustingly bad article.

 

James Lawton: Liverpool add a sorry postscript to under-appreciated Owen's abilities

 

Glenn Hoddle once announced that he was not a natural goalscorer – shortly before the 18-year-old illuminated the 1998 World Cup with the strike of the tournament. Gérard Houllier insisted he take his place in a rotation system which also included Emile Heskey. As England manager, Kevin Keegan preferred Andy Cole.

 

Rafa Benitez packed him off to Real Madrid virtually sight-unseen. He substantially wrecked himself on behalf of England at the 2006 World Cup in Germany, four years after the one in which he scored against Brazil a trademark goal that briefly, hauntingly, seemed to open up the way to the final. Then Fabio Capello, who at times seemed inclined to act as Wayne Rooney's glorified manservant, officially consigned him to the international junkyard.

 

If English football still has any powers of reflection, this week it had plenty of reasons for regrets about Michael Owen – and certainly not too few to mention. The latest surely came when Liverpool's owner John W Henry, in an extremely dull-witted communiqué on why his new manager Brendan Rodgers had been left so inadequately covered after dispatching Andy Carroll to West Ham United, explained that the club was no longer looking for "quick-fix" solutions.

 

That the former hero of Anfield and now free agent, the kid who once promised to smash every scoring record of Liverpool and England, had been passed on so that he could sign for Premier League rivals Stoke, was not universally condemned on Merseyside. Some pointed out that it could not be forgotten that he had spent the last three years of his dramatically diminished football life in the occasional service of Manchester United. Others said only time-expired sentiment would have justified Owen's return.

 

There is, however, another interpretation. It says that one man's sound business instinct is another's failure of imagination. The latter verdict is certainly the one favoured here. Another conclusion has to be that Owen was never quite appreciated for what he was – a natural scorer of astonishing precocity who ran so fast, so acutely, that English football, having quickly taken him for granted, too quickly discounted his unique value.

 

While David Beckham acquired the aura, Michael Owen did the business and not least on that unforgettable, humid night in Saint-Étienne when Beckham received one of the most gratuitous red cards in the history of football and Owen ran through Argentina for the goal which prompted Cesare Maldini, father of Paolo and then coach of Italy, to shake his head at the slowness of England's appreciation of quite what they had at their disposal Maldini's feeling was shared by all those dismayed by the sluggish pace of Hoddle's grooming of the wunderkind who had been a sensation in his first season in Premier League football.

 

Owen was on the bench for the opening game against Tunisia, coming on in the last five minutes of a laboured performance in Marseilles and had a little longer (17 minutes) in the second match, a 2-1 defeat by Romania. In that time Owen scored an equaliser and in added time smacked a shot against a post. It was hard to imagine a point ever made quite so emphatically on an international field by someone so young.

 

The argument that the best of Owen flew away when he lost that first, blinding turn of speed, is hard to counter but, like the old fighter who knows that his last asset will always be his punch, Owen continues to believe in his ability to score vital goals. This immutable fact only makes still more bizarre, at a time of aching transition, Liverpool's rejection of an old but potentially still effective icon. The mystery deepened during Sunday's defeat by Arsenal, when neither Luis Suarez nor Fabio Borini, ever looked likely to land a significant punch.

 

Would Owen have made any kind of difference? It is reasonable to believe so. He would have brought, certainly, a high level of professional pride and the last of the instincts of a natural-born predator. Owen was, of course, a great goal-scorer in whom maybe too many in English football did not believe in quite enough. It is sad that the club he served most brilliantly has added its name to the list.