Michael Owen - What A Sad Bitter Man

You're a spineless bastard Owen.







I've never had much respect for Michael Owen, the dives against Argentina in 1998 and 2002 showed that he has little character as either a footballer or a human being, but his outburst in The Sun, of all place, against Sven really takes the biscuit.

What a sad, bitter, weasely little man he has become.

So Wayne Rooney was playing alone up front which lead to his red card and it was all Sven's fault. Well tell me Michael, as you have 80 England caps at which point did you decide to abdicate your responsibility as a senior professional and not speak up? I'm not saying you are wrong but don't be so spineless to say it now a week after England were knocked out, you should have said something in the dressing room or at the training camp.

Owen also says that man for man England were the best team in the tournament. What complete and utter bollocks, has he looked around the dressing room? Paul Robinson is only in the team because David James had a nightmare in Vienna and he isn't fit to lace Buffon's boots. Peter Crouch is not an international, Gary Neville v Zambrotta? Rio v Cannavaro? Joe Cole v Henry? Lampard v Zidane? Beckham v Kaka or Pirlo?

As Chris Waddle put it lately even Wayne Rooney can't be classed as 'great' at the moment because the England set-up is so short of genuine class. Look at FIFA's 23 man squad of the tournament - only John Terry has made it.

Please Michael, when you've stopped blabbing and blubbing why not check into the Reality Clinic. Frank Lampard is a good club player but he's just had the worst World Cup any England player has had since Steve Hodge in Mexico in '86. If there's any justice in football we have seen the last of David Beckham and Owen Hargreaves will be in the holding role for the next four years.

Incidentally, spare a thought for the much vilified Cristiano Ronaldo. He was on the shortlist for the Young Player Award and apparently he won it, both the online vote and the panel of judges overwhelmingly gave it to him - but FIFA (probably rightly) decided that they couldn't give it whilst the dives and the 'wink' were still in the public's mind so they overruled the award and gave it to Podolski. Well Theirry Henry may not have got a ban for the dive against Spain but in the end justice has been done at some level in what has been so far a very average competition.