LONDON: Michael Owen, once the embodiment of youth and promise in English football, has had his thunder stolen.
The Liverpool striker, now 23, is no longer the Next Big Thing. That honour is being disputed by Wayne Rooney and James Milner, two teenagers whose precocious talents have lit up the Premier League in the dying weeks of 2002.
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