Rooney responds to Owen in debate over who was better at 17

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2025-09-08

London (PA Media/dpa) - Wayne Rooney has responded diplomatically to Michael Owen's claim he was the better of the two players at the age of 17. Owen burst on to the scene as a precocious teenager with Liverpool in the late 1990s before Rooney did likewise at Everton a few years later. Rooney went on to have the more successful career overall of the two forwards, but Owen - in a debate prompted in a recent interview with Rio Ferdinand - feels his......

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