MICHAEL OWEN: There are some people in football you respect because of what they achieved. There are others you admire because of who they are. Kevin Keegan was both.
MICHAEL OWEN: This is how much it means to beat Argentina - I once out-jumped Peter Crouch to head a last-minute winner against them! The feeling of scoring a friendly goal has never been so good.
MICHAEL OWEN: If I'm sitting in the England dressing room, I wouldn't be bothered in the slightest by Thomas Tuchel questioning our performance after the win over Norway.
MICHAEL OWEN: I think we mistake what bravery in football actually is. We are celebrating players throwing themselves in front of shots as if they've gone to war.
MICHAEL OWEN: We all need to calm down a little when it comes to the reaction to England's goalless draw with Ghana. I've been there, I've lived it, and one game this early changes nothing.
Why not quicken things up and play to our strengths? There is so much debate as to who should play on the left, who should play in the middle, who should play on the right.
MICHAEL OWEN: We were coming home on an Emirates flight that weekend and, unbelievably, Aston Villa 's game at Southampton was being shown live on the TVs.
The popular theory is that England's Golden Generation missed out on silverware because of tribal loyalties and who sat where at dinner. Michael Owen remembers it differently.