Where Now For Michael Owen?
A gamblers spirit, it is said, is a necessary part of all human endeavour. For a man who by all accounts is a fan of a little gamble, which some, most notably the outspoken Wigan chairman Dave Whelan, have accused of him being too focused on, Michael Owen must appreciate that he must play the odds and take the plunge for his next bet, which could well determine how English football remembers one of it’s favourite sons. Michael Owen, as a goalscorer and a player, may not be the player he once was, but then he was one of the finest strikers of his generation. It is easy for his recent travails to muddy the waters in that regard. Not many strikers can boast a record quite like Owen’s, a former European footballer of the year, he played for two of Europe’s finest teams, boasts a career record of 157 goals in 271 starts-less than a goal every other game, and he has thus far scored 40 international goals – hardly the record of a nobody. Yet that is the situation Owen finds himself in this su
