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Offline damon loves JT

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Re: Stewart Downing (with added allegations Reply#103)
« Reply #525 on: May 03, 2012, 09:54:55 AM »
Trouble is, Handsworth nose, you *don't* remember when Michael Owen was young and fast and lethal, otherwise you wouldn't be making comparisons like that. Walcott has one decent game a season. Back when you were a sperm, Owen looked like scoring every time he got the ball.
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Re: Stewart Downing (with added allegations Reply#103)
« Reply #526 on: May 03, 2012, 10:20:48 AM »
Quote from: Handsworth Wood Villa on May 02, 2012, 08:54:43 PM
Remember when Michael Owen was young and fast and lethal?

That is Theo Walcott.

Wow, no.

So no.
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Re: Stewart Downing (with added allegations Reply#103)
« Reply #527 on: May 03, 2012, 10:30:04 AM »
Quote from: Handsworth Wood Villa on May 02, 2012, 08:54:43 PM
Remember when Michael Owen was young and fast and lethal?

That is Theo Walcott.

That was a shock. I though for a moment you meant the Theo Walcott who plays for Arsenal.
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Re: Stewart Downing (with added allegations Reply#103)
« Reply #528 on: May 03, 2012, 12:53:23 PM »
If Walcott played up front, you play him in and he would finish it off.

Seriously he is wasted on the wing.
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Re: Stewart Downing (with added allegations Reply#103)
« Reply #529 on: May 03, 2012, 01:11:23 PM »
Walcott has never been and will never be anywhere near the player the young Owen was.
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Re: Stewart Downing (with added allegations Reply#103)
« Reply #530 on: May 03, 2012, 01:13:40 PM »
I'm sure that Michael Owen had a broken leg in my Subbuteo team. Must have knelt on him. Amazing what a recovery he made.
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Re: Stewart Downing (with added allegations Reply#103)
« Reply #531 on: May 03, 2012, 02:43:24 PM »
Quote from: Summers on May 03, 2012, 10:20:48 AM
Quote from: Handsworth Wood Villa on May 02, 2012, 08:54:43 PM
Remember when Michael Owen was young and fast and lethal?

That is Theo Walcott.

Wow, no.

So no.

I had to chuckle at that comparison. In the same breath, I've found myself comparing Alan Shearer to Kevin Francis and playing that "what if" game.

Theo Walcott could play the rest of his career and won't be close to what Michael Owen was in his first few years. He was incredible.
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Re: Stewart Downing (with added allegations Reply#103)
« Reply #532 on: May 03, 2012, 02:55:41 PM »
Walcott is a good player. Owen at his best was one of the best strikers in the world.
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Re: Stewart Downing (with added allegations Reply#103)
« Reply #533 on: May 03, 2012, 03:50:08 PM »
Owen was a bit like Steve Bull
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Re: Stewart Downing (with added allegations Reply#103)
« Reply #534 on: May 03, 2012, 04:14:26 PM »
Quote from: TaxDodger on May 03, 2012, 02:55:41 PM
Walcott is a good player. Owen at his best was one of the best strikers in the world.

He is another SWP, does something brilliant every now and a gain but 99 times out of 100, he is poor.
I think that Oxlade Chamberlain will be a much better player.
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Re: Stewart Downing (with added allegations Reply#103)
« Reply #535 on: May 03, 2012, 04:27:49 PM »
The only similarity I can see between Owen and Walcott is that they both appear to have all the charisma of a slice of mild cheddar.
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Offline damon loves JT

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Re: Stewart Downing (with added allegations Reply#103)
« Reply #536 on: May 03, 2012, 05:08:18 PM »
Owen is not like cheddar. For a start, people like cheddar.
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Offline Percy McCarthy

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Re: Stewart Downing (with added allegations Reply#103)
« Reply #537 on: May 03, 2012, 05:28:40 PM »
Which cheese is it that's full of holes? He's more like that one these days.
« Last Edit: May 03, 2012, 05:32:20 PM by PercyN'thehood »
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Re: Stewart Downing (with added allegations Reply#103)
« Reply #538 on: May 03, 2012, 05:30:26 PM »
Which reminds me of the time I bought Stevie Wonder a cheese grater for his birthday. He said it was the most violent book he'd ever read.
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Re: Stewart Downing (with added allegations Reply#103)
« Reply #539 on: May 03, 2012, 05:34:25 PM »
Downing is like camembert. It's no good for ages, brilliant for five minutes, then it's off
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