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Michael Owen hits back at 'delusional' online trolls and defends Liverpool ambassador role
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Michael Owen has hit back at the abuse he takes from football fans online and defended his role as a Liverpool ambassador in his revealing new book Reboot.

Owen scored 158 goals in 297 appearances for the Reds, helping them to two League Cups, the FA Cup and UEFA Cup in the process across his eight-year career in the first team at Anfield.

However, the ex-England forward soured his relationship somewhat with the club's fanbase after leaving to join Real Madrid in a cut-price deal in August 2004.

Owen's standing further plummeted in the eyes of certain sections of the Liverpool support when he moved to Manchester United in 2009, but the 39-year-old now enjoys an ambassadorial role with the Reds.

In his new book, Owen talks about the "contradictory" claims of his detractors who take issue with his current position at Anfield, while also taking aim at those who direct abuse at him online.

With close to four million Twitter followers, the former Liverpool man is a regular target for unsavoury comments on social media, but Owen insists his reputation is intact in the "real world".

He writes: "I’ve never been one of those guys who you’d see hanging around their former club, wearing club gear, doing nothing in particular other than just being seen there. I see guys like that – lads I played with and against – doing that at clubs all over the land.

"You wouldn’t see a guy like Paul Scholes, Steven Gerrard or Jamie Carragher ever doing that and I wouldn’t dream of doing it either. It looks desperate. It makes me cringe.

Yes, a football club was once my place of work. But when I left, that contact was broken. I can’t then become a fan – a hanger-on, standing around to remind anyone who might be looking that I once played there. I’m secure enough with my legacy and contributions that I don’t need to.

"Unless I’m contracted to perform some kind of ambassadorial duty that requires me to be at a club, I’d be mortified to be seen there. I don’t know why this is, but I’m actually proud to feel this way. The same applies to asking favours from former clubs. As much as I played for Manchester United and Real Madrid, I wouldn’t dream of phoning them up to look for a couple of match tickets.

"I suspect they’d have no problem with it if I did, but I’d never dream of doing it. I’m like my dad Terry in that sense. I respect myself, and the clubs, too much to go cap in hand for anything for free. Again, I’d be embarrassed. Yet, I see ex-pros doing it all the time.

"Liverpool is a slightly different situation in that, along with a number of other ex-players, I have an ambassadorial role there. I’m not in there all the time – far from it. But I do my bit.
"Not surprisingly, I get a huge amount of abuse from what I suspect is a minority of Liverpool fans who think that, because I played for a rival club, I shouldn’t even be a Liverpool ambassador in the first place!

"That, I’m afraid, is fan-centric nonsense. Not just that, when I trawl through my memory banks, recounting all the great moments I enjoyed with the fans and my fellow players, these opinions sting. My record at Liverpool is a good one. I won trophies there, scored goals, won two Golden Boots there and lifted the Ballon d’Or. I played for the club on two hundred and ninety seven occasions. I went in where it hurts for the club on countless more instances.

"How does playing for a rival club negate any of that? It doesn’t. To think that way is just delusional. And even worse, while fans are happy to question my credentials, you’ve got guys hanging around.
"Liverpool and every other club, with fancy titles, wearing tracksuits, being ambassadors, who played there for one season, didn’t do much for the club and kicked a ball for two minutes while they were at it! It’s all such nonsense – and fans sometimes need to stop and have a long hard think about how some of their opinions are so contradictory. Worth adding too is that these opinions only ever seem to surface on the Internet!

"In my daily life, I don’t shy away from going anywhere. I go to restaurants, pubs, racecourses, football grounds – I have done so for years and I’ll continue to. I can count on one hand the number of times that anyone has come up to me and given me a hard time about whatever football clubs I’ve played for, or been abusive about so-called loyalty, or challenged my views on this or that.
"In the real world it doesn’t happen. On the Internet however, it’s a total free-for-all.”
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https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/spo...ws/fan-centric-nonsense-michael-owen-16853813
 
I can't be arsed reading that, but I'd just like to remind everyone that Michael Owen once said this:

"Watched my eighth ever film on the flight home. Must have been bored. #HateFilms"

Three of those films were Rocky, Ghost and Cool Runnings.
 
manwithnoname said:
I can't be arsed reading that, but I'd just like to remind everyone that Michael Owen once said this:

"Watched my eighth ever film on the flight home. Must have been bored. #HateFilms"

Three of those films were Rocky, Ghost and Cool Runnings.
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I would like to propose a link between lack of movie exposure and being a boring cunt
 
A friend of a friend once said to me "I don't like music", I replied, incredulously "You not like ANY music, there must be something you like". They then insisted they didn't like any music whatsoever, of any genre, any age, by anyone.

I quickly made my excuses & left, as they were clearly mentally disturbed.
 
manwithnoname said:
I can't be arsed reading that, but I'd just like to remind everyone that Michael Owen once said this:

"Watched my eighth ever film on the flight home. Must have been bored. #HateFilms"

Three of those films were Rocky, Ghost and Cool Runnings.
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And five of them were Rocky movies :
I haven’t watched many films. I’ve seen all the Rockys to be fair, so that’s five. There’s a sixth is there? Didn’t know that. Rocky IV’s my favourite film. Didn’t like Rocky I, it’s rubbish
 
Rosco said:
And five of them were Rocky movies :
I haven’t watched many films. I’ve seen all the Rockys to be fair, so that’s five. There’s a sixth is there? Didn’t know that. Rocky IV’s my favourite film. Didn’t like Rocky I, it’s rubbish
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He's the Alan Partridge of football
 
manwithnoname said:
He's the Alan Partridge of football
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Or a serial killer.

So what makes a good day now? Matchday’s still the highlight of the week. There’s still a buzz when you get to the stadium, and then just before the game, when you’re about to go to work.

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That’s amazing. What do you listen to in the car on the way there? I don’t listen to anything. I don’t know why, but the car’s always been my own quiet space. When the kids are in the car they always want a song on, but I’m just happy with my thoughts
 
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He also said he didn't like films as they were all far fetched. People shooting each other with guns etc. How can anyone believe this is real?

WTF? Has he ever heard of escapism or suspending reality to enjoy something creative?
 
ILD said:
He also said he didn't like films as they were all far fetched. People shooting each other with guns etc. How can anyone believe this is real?

WTF? Has he ever heard of escapism or suspending reality to enjoy something creative?
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Those types of people usually hate sports as well.
 
Rosco said:
And five of them were Rocky movies :
I haven’t watched many films. I’ve seen all the Rockys to be fair, so that’s five. There’s a sixth is there? Didn’t know that. Rocky IV’s my favourite film. Didn’t like Rocky I, it’s rubbish
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I can’t believe he really said Rocky 1 was/is ‘rubbish’. Clueless twat.
 
It's the fact he carried on watching the Rocky films as well after deciding the first one was rubbish...

He's very odd.
 
What fucking thoughts do you reckon he likes to be alone with? It's probably just static, white noise.
 
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ILD said:
He also said he didn't like films as they were all far fetched. People shooting each other with guns etc. How can anyone believe this is real?

WTF? Has he ever heard of escapism or suspending reality to enjoy something creative?
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Or the fact that people do shoot each other with guns in real life. Quite a lot actually.
 
manwithnoname said:
What?
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Used to have a class mate, couldn't stand sports "what's the point, just a bunch of men chasing a ball or whatever". Thing is, he didn't like films either, just watched documentaries. Was studying to become a mathematician.
Just got reminded.
 
He's not thick, just seems utterly uninterested (and therefore unaware) about culture, arts, history, current affairs, science, language, literature, politics or travel.

He seems a bit on the spectrum.

All he can do is play football, talk about it (badly) and his only real passion seems to be horses and betting

Weird, boring, humourless cunt
 
It's strange isn't it? He should be a Liverpool legend and I should have a sense of nostalgia the way I do about Fowler for instance, but with Owen, I just don't care. It has kinda tainted 2001 for me.
 
He was never as popular with the crowd as God even when he was in his prime, so it's hardly surprising that has dropped even further in our affections subsequently

But whatever, he was a brilliant player for us. Exhilarating to watch at his very best.
 
He brought me a lot of joyous moments, but he was only relevant while he played for the club I love.
Nothing he's done since leaving, including joining the scum, diminishes those good memories.
 
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