Owen Hargreaves
Owen Hargreaves is a Canadian-born English international who played for Bayern Munich from 1997 to 2007, before moving to Manchester United in the summer of 2007.
He has made his name as a defensive midfielder is a genuine central midfielder who can stop opposition attacks as well as create them for his team.
A lot is expected of him at Manchester United – there’s been criticism of his abilities and his price tag, but he’s a good enough player to help Man Utd win titles, and that’s what counts.
England’s World Cup Chances: The Class of 2010 v The Golden Generation
Whilst we are used to (endlessly irritated by?) the hype surrounding every build-up to an England World Cup campaign, it’s fair to say that in 2006 much of the hype held water. Here was the ‘Golden Generation’; players who were worthy of standing shoulder to shoulder with the best that rocked-up in Germany. Yes, we…
England’s World Cup Chances: 23 into 11 Doesn’t Go
For the mathematicians out there you’ll instantly recognise the numbers 11 and 23 as ‘prime numbers’, meaning of course that they are only divisible by themselves and 1. For the football fans out there you will recognise 11 as the number of players you can have on the pitch at any one time and 23…
England & the 2010 World Cup
1966 was a great year, or so I’m told by those of an age able to remember it. It has been a long time since England lifted the highest honour in International football, too long in fact, and many have been brave enough to predict South Africa will be the location for the Three Lions…
Life at Manchester United after Ronaldo – The story to date
The season so far has had its ups and downs for the Reds. A shock defeat to Burnley certainly wasn’t in the script, as the world looks on intently to see how the reigning Premiership Champions set about life after Ronaldo and ‘that’ final in Rome, to defending their domestic crown to make it four…
Zabeena Harris – Hargreaves’s “friend” in need
Zabeena Harris is a model from Oxford, England. After Owen Hargreaves had split with his fiancée Janelle Khouri, Zabeena has been the one supporting him and helping him through the tough time. Not to forget, due to his knee injury, it seems like he won’t be playing in the next season as well. All the…
Barca rule Europe, and have done it their way
For nine minutes, I was smug and self-satisfied, as well as disappointed. My pre-match predictions were being played out in front of my eyes; the men in all-white were on top, and the Catalans were struggling to adapt to the intensity of their play. Victor Valdes had taken just thirty seconds to nervously prod a…
Carrick and Hargreaves close to Manchester United return
Michael Carrick and Owen Hargreaves seem set for a return to first team football for Manchester United against West Brom next week when the domestic season restarts after the international break. Speaking to the Manchester Evening News, Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson said:
Arsenal youngest, Manchester United oldest? It’s all relative…
Is it possible to be too old to win a title? Sir Alex Ferguson certainly thinks so. According to him, Chelsea are too old to win a title. At least, that’s how the Guardian interpreted Sir Alex’s comments (and far be it for someone to suggest that a British newspaper somehow blew an innocuous quote…
Is Sepp Blatter a Marxist?
For all those enraged by the hundreds of millions of pounds in inflated transfer fees flying between the stadia of Europe this summer: there was once a bearded man from a long time ago who proposed that the use-value of a commodity or service should determine its price, not market forces. No, I’m not talking…
10 Highlights From Manchester United’s Double-Winning 07/08 Season
Watched Manchester United’s 07/08 Season Review over the weekend (grab the torrent here) and it was quite an entertaining 2 and half hours. It also gave me some perspective on the season that went by – perspective that I think is useful considering the Ronaldo saga, the transfer speculation this summer and for predicting United’s…
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