article_snippet.sent: The expectation surrounding Michael Owen escalated, and the intro for the next day's report in the Liverpool Echo said it all: 'Brazil have Ronaldo.
article_snippet.sent: Liverpool, and now England, have Michael Owen.'
article_snippet.sent: Other England strikers created a similar hype.
article_snippet.sent: Wayne Rooney was one, Alan Shearer another.
article_snippet.sent: Michael Owen never looked at the opposition as Manchester United, or Arsenal, or even Argentina. '
article_snippet.sent: they were just names on a teamsheet, not big reputations, and that innocence served me well,' Michael Owen once said.
article_snippet.sent: Even so, being mentioned in the same breath as Bergkamp and Cristiano Ronaldo will do the man who was struggling for a place in the Leicester City team just two years ago.
article_snippet.sent: a player who fell off the radar almost as quickly as Michael Ricketts came on to it.
highlights_snippet.sent: Michael Owen emerged in 1997-98 but managed to maintain Michael Owen form .
  