Interpolic Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 To paraphrase Stewart Lee, if you were to lock Michael Owen for sixty years in an empty underground bunker which contained nothing but a woolly tea cosy, he would not even be curious enough to be tempted to see if the tea cosy would make a serviceable hat. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LV Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 To paraphrase Stewart Lee, if you were to lock Michael Owen for sixty years in an empty underground bunker which contained nothing but a woolly tea cosy, he would not even be curious enough to be tempted to see if the tea cosy would make a serviceable hat. I met Stewart Lee once in a hotel lift in Northampton. True story. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
beardsleymagic Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 Michael Owen arranged for £200 worth of pennies to be left on Kevin Keegan's desk after losing a game of head tennis against the former Newcastle United manager. Keegan and assistant Terry McDermott challenged Owen and Nicky Butt to a doubles match at the club's training ground back in 2008. Owen believed it was 'impossible' that 'two old-age pensioners' could beat them so rather than playing for pride, he upped the stakes with a cash bet. To Owen and Butt's horror, the Magpies' management team 'absolutely battered' them - and they had to pay Keegan and McDermott back. "A couple of days later, they were chasing us for the money so we said, 'We've got to pay them but we can't just live with this. We've got to get them back somehow," Owen recalled on Back of the Net. "So I phoned my Dad and said, 'Can you go round all the banks in Newcastle and try to get £200 worth of pennies?' That's 20,000 pennies. "I got to the training ground and as soon as I got back in from training, I called my Dad. He was out in the car park and, now, the hard bit was getting all of this money into Kevin Keegan's office before he came in. "We got a few people to help us - literally ripped all the bags as quick as we could - and stuck 20,000 pennies on to his table in a huge pile. It was brilliant. "Anyway, we waited and waited. Kevin Keegan came in, opened his door, looked at his desk with a massive pile of pennies on it and knew straight away it was me and Butty. He turned round and we burst out of the changing rooms laughing our heads off. "So even though we got beat, it was almost a victory for us and never again did he ask us to play head tennis. And that is a true story." Totally oblivious to the fact he sounds like Partride’s “needless to say I had the last laugh”, only without the humour. The blokes a parody on himself Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikky Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 Keegan is awesome at head tennis tbh Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
midds Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 He's such a fucking dull and introverted little wankstain. Eeeeee let's pay up but in pennies, it'll be sooooo funny. Pernicious little cunt, just fuck off you boring little parasite. Die in a fucking fire. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElDiablo Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 Can't wait for the day one of his horses kicks him in the temple. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raconteur Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 Tells a lot about the man when he relates that story thinking it makes him look good. Completely disappeared up his own ass. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shays Given Tim Flowers Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 Shock, Owen suggests a bet, then is a cunt when he loses. I mean that’s the sort of shit you do to an enemy or if someone tricked you. Weird little man. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimbo Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 I’d be fine with that if he got the pennies himself, but sending your dad all over town collecting pennies? A bit odd to me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Edgar Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 Don't mind the penny banter. Bet Keegan laughed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 Sort of off-topic but one of the things I was impressed with by Owen when he played was how good a header of the ball he was. Obviously wasn’t tall but he had a good leap and was the opposite to Carroll whereby he sniffed out where the ball would likely go and nip in front of the centre-back, rather than see where the ball was going, then react. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawK Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 Sort of off-topic but one of the things I was impressed with by Owen when he played was how good a header of the ball he was. Obviously wasn’t tall but he had a good leap and was the opposite to Carroll whereby he sniffed out where the ball would likely go and nip in front of the centre-back, rather than see where the ball was going, then react. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 I know, just think he was still a decent player for us right up until the second half of that relegation season. Once Given & N’Zogbia left he downed tools. He was just over 1 in 2 for us until then. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Howaythetoon Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 Owen man, such a boring cunt! His poor lass having to let this wet fanny try and get her own wet! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest reefatoon Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 That Owen man, he is such a card. Couldn't stop laughing all the way through that anecdote, was probably the funniest thing I have ever read, I actually nearly died of pure pleasure. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papavasiliou Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 "So even though we got beat, it was almost a victory for us and never again did he ask us to play head tennis. And that is a true story." Needless to say, I had the last laugh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 Expunge this thread FFS. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 Don't mind the penny banter. Bet Keegan laughed. Probably laughed, found a kid in the U15 to tidy/claim the money Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newintoon Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/michael-owen-game-gave-up-22361834.amp What a daft shitebag he is, the only team he wanted to join in the premier league was Liverpool then joins Man United after he left us Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 I’m also reckoning that was the home fans chanting that. He was still popular up until pretty much when Keegan left? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decky Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 Didn't we already know all this? Why is that a new article? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafalove Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 Also seems to put to bed some of what Souness was saying about wanting Amelia instead if Owen. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superior Acuña Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 Aye. I was at that match, if there were any Newcastle fans chanting that - there could've been some aye, but it definitely wasn't enough to be heard on telly - it'll have been the Watford fans. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geordie_b Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 Aye. I was at that match, if there were any Newcastle fans chanting that - there could've been some aye, but it definitely wasn't enough to be heard on telly - it'll have been the Watford fans. .com match report references similar songs "The chant of "we want our money back" from the away section was harsh, but typical of a day on which goalscorer Kieron Dyer also found himself verbally abused by an away following who weren't in the most forgiving of fettles." https://www.nufc.com/html/2006-07html/2007-05-13watford-a.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superior Acuña Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 Aye. I was at that match, if there were any Newcastle fans chanting that - there could've been some aye, but it definitely wasn't enough to be heard on telly - it'll have been the Watford fans. .com match report references similar songs "The chant of "we want our money back" from the away section was harsh, but typical of a day on which goalscorer Kieron Dyer also found himself verbally abused by an away following who weren't in the most forgiving of fettles." https://www.nufc.com/html/2006-07html/2007-05-13watford-a.html I do remember Dyer being clearly booed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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