Alex

He had a great season but even back then, pre-injury, he was limited. He obviously had a good understanding with Gerrard but those long passes for Owen to run onto often resulted in the ball being given away. The frenetic nature of the premier league, especially back then, often meant possession was quickly turned over. Even more so at Anfield which has quite a small pitch. While this meant Owen would often get a fair few chances per match it doesn’t take a genius to work out why this was nowhere as effective at international level. Jonathan Wilson in ‘Inverting the Pyramid’ talks about Owen complaining about how for England, when KK was manager, the latter said all Owen did was score. Owen’s response was “Is that not enough?” Wilson’s conclusion was that, at the top level, it wasn’t enough. Ironically it was Keegan who recognised that, post injury, Owen could no longer play as an out and out striker. The only time he looked a player in the latter part of his career was when Keegan deployed him as a deep lying right sided forward alongside Viduka and Martins. Tl;dr He wasn’t as good as he thought he was and never worked on the bits of his game that were weak which is why he struggled so much when he lost his pace

The OP still makes me laugh

Fucking hell

You’re not missing much

And speaking of David Davis, and his ilk, given how difficult he and all the others have found negotiating a deal with our closest trading partners (and even when a deal the EU agreed upon was formulated it would leave us in a worse position than now) who the fuck is going to negotiate all these cracking deals with the rest of the world? And why should anyone have any faith in them?

Don’t know why anyone would assume we’d get the same deal as Norway given the difference in the two economies. It’s obvious you might give concessions to a smaller economy that you wouldn’t necessarily want to afford to a competitor ( which is what we’d be).

It’s not the fault of the tories. Just like it’s not the fault of the people who voted leave

As a military man, you would know all about that

Sorry to hear that, mate

Simon Mann off TMS commentating as well

Yeah but that was Labour’s fault

It’s just a game to these cunts

I wanted Mbappe to win just to see the look on Neymar’s face

Wain

Just as CT predicted

Slightly different take

Basically, you didn’t understand

Sounds a tad light on detail that. Almost like you’re making shit up

Without a doubt

They’ve been out for a curry twice

Imagine changing your mind over Brexit

Not really. In fact, not at all

I can’t really get my head round potentially another general election happening with both parties going into it with the same two leaders

Aye

CT, obvs