Michael Owen | “You don't have to be THAT GOOD to be a Premier League player anymore”
Up Front
Folding Pocket
4.6 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode we are joined by one of only four Englishmen to win the Ballon d’Or. Michael Owen was a phenom who burst onto the scene with THAT goal against Argentina in the 1998 World Cup.
He went on to score over 150 goals for Liverpool before becoming a ‘Galactico’ at Real Madrid. He returned to England in 2005, joining Newcastle United but his injuries had started to take their toll.
He would go on to win a Premier League title at Liverpool’s hated rivals Manchester United before calling time on his career at Stoke City.
Giving the inside scoop on his turbulent time at Newcastle United, challenging public perceptions of his character, and offering his thoughts on the current state of the Premier League, Michael joins the show to reflect on his career that featured brilliance and frustration in equal measure.
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| 0:00.0 | It was obviously a mistake, what he did. |
| 0:02.2 | Tell me what you mean by resentment. |
| 0:03.6 | You don't resent the referee, do you? |
| 0:05.2 | No, he made a mistake. |
| 0:06.2 | Do you resent Digo Simeone? |
| 0:07.8 | Like, where's your resentment? |
| 0:09.1 | Well, that he made a mistake. |
| 0:10.9 | I was a Boyard Everton fan, but I'm going to be hated now. |
| 0:13.7 | Literally within a day, Nikki Buk phone me and said, |
| 0:17.0 | just so you know, the gaffer's going to call you. I'm like, who's the gaffer? He goes, Sir Alex. |
| 0:23.3 | Now, if you can just run a bit further than everyone else and you can basically pass it from A to B, |
| 0:28.5 | you're getting a decent career in the Premier League. Tell me about that. Can we clear it up? |
| 0:33.7 | Well, are you mates now? No. No. This is up front with me, Simon Jordan. |
| 0:40.3 | I believe there are a lot of vacuous, uninformed, unchallenged opinions out there. |
| 0:43.3 | I want to get to the bottom line and cut through the nonsense. |
| 0:46.3 | So with this podcast with William Hill, I'm going to get people with strong views who think they can stand them up to proper scrutiny. |
| 0:52.3 | There's a good chance I might learn something along the way, and more importantly, so might you. |
| 0:58.0 | Joining me in today's episode, a top goal score for some of the world's most iconic football |
| 1:03.0 | clubs. He memorably burst onto the World Cup stage in 1998 as a teenager against the Argentinians. |
| 1:09.0 | He's picked up domestic honours amongst the Premier League's biggest rivalry, |
| 1:13.1 | a treble with Liverpool and a Premier League title at Match United, |
| 1:16.5 | a Galactico for a period of time, |
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