Michael Owen
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owen is still a good striker but has lost a bit of pace which was always his biggest asset.
i reckon i would perfer defoe in my team over owen these days.
dave
i reckon i would perfer defoe in my team over owen these days.
dave
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I would love it if Man U brought him
I remember when I was first getting into football Gary Lineker was my favourite player, and he always said he wanted to get at least one in two (career total: 292 goals in 546 games).
I bet playing in the J-League helped that a lot
Augie March
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Nah, that was Roy Race.
I bet playing in the J-League helped that a lot
His goal to game ratio would be slightly better if he'd retired rather than gone to Grampus 8. 8 goals in 23 games was the worst goal to game rtaio he had at any club and worse than his international ratio.
The only other two clubs he had where he had a less than 2:1 ratio where Leicester where he started and Barcelona were he was often used as a winger.
No, I mena for a start there's loads of players who've only played a couple of first-class football matches before being released by their clubs
Not true. I have a recently-published compilation of two years' worth of Roy Of The Rovers stories and he gets booked at least once.
Ah, those were the days.
To be honest, he was at his best when he stayed in the 6 yard box for 90 minutes.
He wasn't actually a terrible winger, he was a very pacey player in his prime.
Whaty made him great is the same thing that made Shearer and Owen great, the pure love of scoring; not caring whetehr the goal's a thirty yard screamer or scrambled in form 2 yards.
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like linekar ever scored from outside the box!
dave
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Refused as fuck
"ethnic pakistani tosser"
Did y'all see him put that one over David James last week? Pick that one out. "Good first touch? Don't need it. 
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and to think you didn't even mention the greatest of all of em
Am I being stupid to ask who that might be? I did a decade-by-decade mindmap and they were who I came up with (oddly I couldn't think of one for the 70s).
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Wikipedia said:
+ the England goal record with 49 goals
whats more
he played for Man U
Are you serious??
He wasn't a centre forward though, more a goal scoring centre midfielder, i.e. like Gerrard or Lampard but not shite at international level. I totally agree that he has an awesome record; to be ahead of all-time great poachers like Lineker and Greaves is incredible. However, I was thinking specifically of centre forwards, also leaving out Tom Finney because as I understand it he more played at outside right/left, despite being at joint-sixth in the scoring charts.
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The 66 team were known as the wingless-wonders though, playing Hurst and Hunt up front with Peters and Charlton attacking in front of Styles and Ball, with a flat back four. I think it was thought of as quite innovative then.
And with Manchester United, Dennis Law would've always been the centre forward.
And with Manchester United, Dennis Law would've always been the centre forward.
