Zum Thema Michael Owen:
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story ... rd?cc=5739
Er hat diese Saison 79 Minuten in der Liga gespielt. Teilweise weil er verletzt war, teilweise weil Leute wie Wellbeck den Vorzug erhalten haben. Und trotzdem sagt er Dinge wie:
"I am proud of what I did for England and what I have done," he told the Daily Mirror. "Obviously Sir Bobby's records are in my sights. I am still here."
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As soon as Fabio Capello took over, that was it," he said. "I was on the bench for his first game in charge after having been an automatic starter for 10 years, and then after that I wasn't in the squad. The manager is the only man who will know the answer why.
"You have to accept it. If you get upset and angry to start with, if you will keep getting wound up. You have to let it go and that's that.
I don't know why, that's something you have to ask the current manager.
"Once you make a decision then maybe you've made the decision. That's it, and even if I kept scoring I don't know what would have happened."
Nur um das nochmal klar zu sagen. Herr Owen hat in den vergangenen zweieinhalb Saisonen 31 Spiele in der Liga gemacht. Sonst nur in der CL oder in den Cups gegen irgendwelche Kneipenmannschaften. Und er weiß wirklich nicht, warum er nicht mehr in der Nationalmannschaft spielt?
