The potential peril of goal bonuses

Money makes the football world go round and if you don't have cash, you have nothing. Just ask professional idiot Leon Knight.

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Does the Championship deserve more respect?

With the Championship season kicking off on the same weekend as the Premier League and La Liga it was inevitably going to receive less coverage than the two biggest leagues in European football. However there is no doubt that the league deserves more respect as it is arguably one of the greatest leagues in the world, the slogan more commonly used to describe it's bigger brother.

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A blessing in disguise?

Michael Owen’s recent quest to get back into Football has landed him in Stoke as he no longer became a free agent after signing a deal with ‘The Potters’.

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Rooney, Owen and the English distrust of success

There is something in the English psyche that seems to dislike success and actively wish for successful people to fall.

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Michael Owen; seeing a career from beginning to end (Video)

For a person of my vintage, the career of Michael Owen earmarks just how old we now are and have to act.

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Retirement May Be Looming For Michael Owen

I could think of no better way of making my return to We All Follow United than writing an article about Michael Owen.

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Why If Owen Wants To 'Play On' Into His Mid-30's, He Really Should Leave United

When you’re an injury-prone striker on the fringes of the squad at any top club, the last thing that you want is to hobble off injured early on when you finally are chosen to start in a big match. After all when that happens, it only makes you more of a ‘crock’ right?

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Michael Owen – The Future

On Wednesday night Michael Owen starred for Manchester United for the first time in the 2011-2012 season, scoring two goals in a 3 – 0 win away from home against Leeds in the Carling Cup third round.

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Michael Owen – A Tale Of What Could Have Been

Michael Owen fired us a reminder of his capabilities this week with an impressive brace of goals at Elland Road to see off an admittedly lacklustre Leeds. His record of 11 goals in 12 starts is typical of the man. What is probably airbrushed aside from these statistics is that most of those goals have come against less than solid defences – when Sir Alex Ferguson feels he can risk fielding a striker who can ressemble a passenger more often than not.

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Whatever Happened to Young Michael Owen

Earlier this week, there was a fair amount in the press about how it is a full decade since England’s 5-1 victory in Munich. Initially, I was going to write about how the fact that we are celebrating this victory a full ten years on typifies English footballs attitude

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