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Hello there, I'm joined by Saih Hughes to have a chat about is work with the athletic.

If you want to sign up to the athletic, it's the athletic.co. UK forward slash the Anfield rap to do it through us.

But we're trying to take a little look at a piece that James or Simon have written every single week,

and this week there was a long read on Michael Owen on the athletic and I

think the first thing sigh that maybe gets missed about Owen was he was I

think he may well still be prior to the injury that you detail the fastest

football that I've ever seen and if he wasn't the fastest football that I've

ever seen he was the fastest comparable football that I've ever seen in terms of how quick he was

versus the opponents he played against, the way in which Centaravs used to be.

He was absolutely electric and he could single-handedly destroy teams.

And I think that that sort of get missed how exciting he is. and he could single-handedly destroy teams.

And I think that that saw to get missed how exciting he was.

I think when I think about him I do think of the pace firstly,

but I also think about his fearlessness.

Yeah, he had that sort of thing that Wayne Mooney had when he first came into, you know, to the

Evanton scene and I guess played for England as well where he just wouldn't be afraid of taking somebody on

and that just petrified defenders no matter what experience you've got if you've got

paste one and that you know it was an old boring cliche and

but there is there is a truth to it that the defenders just don't like playing

against pace and he had pace but he was he was absolutely fearless and I mentioned that the goal that he scored against

Argentina for England and you know he's taken on sort of two players who play, one Shamoff who plays in Italy,

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