12/1 for Owen is just taking the Michael.Byline: Darren Fullerton THE last time Michael Owen was prolific, a pint was thruppence, you weren't born and I was crawling about a play cot in nappies and a baby blue romper suit. What a night out that was. We're talking reeeeeeeeally long ago, here. It was so long ago, BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. Newsline's Julian Fowler was just setting sail with the Tall Ships. Yet, bemusing as it may sound, Coral have been offering meagre mea·ger also mea·gre adj. 1. Deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent; scanty. 2. Deficient in richness, fertility, or vigor; feeble: the meager soil of an eroded plain. 3. odds of 12/1 on Owen being the Premier League's top scorer this season. Only the likes of Torres, Anelka, Drogba, Defoe and Rooney have been given shorter prices. Owen top goalscorer? Despite Saturday's strike at Wigan, there's more chance of David Moyes and Mark Hughes guzzling champagne and listening to Julio Iglesias in a candlelit can·dle·lit adj. Illuminated by candles: a candlelit ceremony. bath. Now, Rooney at 13/2 or Adebayor at 12/1 with Bet365? Well, that's a different matter. CAPTION(S): ME! ME! ME! No thanks Michael |
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