Michael Owen In Humiliating Climbdown

Michael Owen was on his high horse (again) at the weekend but got himself into really dodgy territory.

As you will see from the quote below, he accused Newcastle United of lying about having offered him a contract back in the relegation season

“Despite the club saying they did, they didn’t ever offer me a new contract despite them putting it in the press that they did.

I’ve seen it a million times, a club will blatantly lie to their fans to take the moral high ground, leaving the player with no leg to stand on.

All will be revealed one day.”

One thing I didn’t think of Owen was that he was stupid but just how humiliating has his climbdown been from his very tall high horse been!

He followed up his original messages on twitter ([intlink id=”26461″ type=”post”]see our original article[/intlink]) with the following, as he tried to dig himself out of what could be a very messy (and costly) hole;

Just to clarify. My tweet yesterday referred to no contract offer after Newcastle relegation. Which I said was understandable.

— michael owen (@themichaelowen) March 24, 2013

Newcastle did make me an offer to extend in 2008 when Joe Kinnear was manager. Apologies to the club if there has been any confusion.

— michael owen (@themichaelowen) March 24, 2013

I just didn’t want the fans to think I had deserted the club after relegation. I didn’t.

— michael owen (@themichaelowen) March 24, 2013

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