Owen and the ex-editor of the Daily Mirror are clearly not friends.
Former Liverpool, Manchester United and Newcastle United striker Michael Owen has gone to battle on Twitter with controversial journalist Piers Morgan.
Both are very active on the social media site and after London based newspaper Metro reported on the ex-England star’s latest blog on SportLobster, the feud started.
“Arsenal don’t have the class of player to go toe to toe with the main title contenders,” Owen wrote in the blog, as quoted by the Metro.
“Despite people constantly telling me Mesut Ozil is world class, his inconsistency means that we only see occasional glimpses of real quality.
“His odd good performance is usually followed by half a dozen poor ones.”
Understandably this has received a backlash from Gunners fans, most notably Morgan who is a very loud and opinionated supporter of the north London club.
When Owen tweeted in response to the piece in the London daily, the famous wind-up merchant couldn’t pass up an opportunity to stir things up.
Poor old Benchwarmer @themichaelowen – blogs deliberately provocative things, then squeals when media reports what he wrote. Naive or dumb?
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) December 18, 2013
Unfortunately for the 34-year-old BT Sport pundit, the Reds legend took the bait and a rant ensued between the pair.
@piersmorgan You would say that as you made a living doing the same thing you scumbag.
— michael owen (@themichaelowen) December 18, 2013
In defence of both Morgan and the Metro, the paper in fact directly quoted Owen from the blog and although perhaps the comments could be judged as being out of context, it did not deviate from what the former forward was putting across.
Some scandalous headlines in papers today totally misquoting the comments in my blog. The Metro (whoever they are) talking nonsense again.
— michael owen (@themichaelowen) December 18, 2013
@themichaelowen what is truly scandalous is you attacking a newspaper for accurately reporting what you wrote, Benchwarmer. That’s low.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) December 18, 2013
@piersmorgan The headline ‘quotes’ me. Having read it again, I don’t say anything of the kind. That’s normal for scumbags like you I suppose
— michael owen (@themichaelowen) December 18, 2013
Although Morgan isn’t the most popular figure in the media, it’s Owen that comes out of this one looking a bit silly. The final words can be from the feuding pair.
Get worried about Benchwarmer @themichaelowen when he starts ranting and abusing me after 8pm…he’s either tired or drunk.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) December 18, 2013
@piersmorgan Poor reply. I know you’re struggling when you resort to pathetic tweets like that. I will refrain from embarrassing you further
— michael owen (@themichaelowen) December 18, 2013
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