Sir Alex Ferguson's latest flutter

Used to a star billing, new purchase Michael Owen will have no intention of settling for warming the Old Trafford bench Graphic: how Michael Owen compares with Carlos Tevez In football’s world of free spending, it could only have been Fergie who has bucked the trend. Frustrated by his attempts to purchase what he required at the boutiques of European footballing chic, the Manchester United manager has come home, wallet still bulging, and done his business at Poundstretcher. For many, he will have stretched credulity, too, with the signature of Michael Owen. One thing is certain. While opinion is not so much divided as polarised on whether this is evidence of the Manchester United manager’s intuitive genius still flourishing or those finely honed instincts finally waning, the player at the centre of the debate looked mightily... [read full story]                    

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