SCOUSE LOVE-IN
Last updated : 14 November 2005 By editor
Michael Owen was full of praise for Wayne Rooney after England’s defeat of Argentina.
"You gain things and you lose things as you get older," he said. "Wayne Rooney is a fearless type of person. As he grows older, he will probably understand a lot more and have a bit of realisation of what football's all about. At the minute, it's a positive for him because he has no fear.
"It doesn't matter who Wayne plays against. He can rise to an occasion. He's a big-game player. That's what you need in a World Cup. You need a player who doesn't just score a hat-trick against a smaller nation but does it against the proper teams and puts in performances like that. He is just so confident in himself."
