Michael Owen to Man Utd: Good News for England

By: Daryl | July 3rd, 2009 | No Comments »

Seems like forever since Michael Owen was an England regular. These days, when I pick the team in my head (I spend a lot of time doing that by the way, right now it goes: James, Johnson, Cole, Terry, Ferdinand, Walcott, Gerrard, Barry, Lampard, Rooney, Heskey) poor old Micky doesn’t even come into consideration.

OK, so Owen hasn’t had any sort of form or fitness. But the scary thing is that we haven’t missed him one bit recently. I think mostly because he doesn’t really compliment Rooney all that well. Rooney seems to do best playing as a support striker (or “second striker” or “in the hole” or whatever you want to call it) with a big target man ahead of him (here’s looking at you Emile). So that really leaves no room for Owen in the starting XI. But that doesn’t mean Man Utd’s latest signing has no role to play.

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