Michael Owen threw dart into someone’s leg at Christmas ‘from 20 metres away’
Michael Owen has been branded “an odd bloke” after telling a baffling story about throwing a dart into somebody’s leg.
The ex-England striker was requested to disclose a Christmas confession forward of Tuesday evening’s Sports Personality of the Year award ceremony, and he took folks without warning with a totally random anecdote.
Did he wait till Christmas Eve to purchase all his presents one 12 months? Or perhaps he as soon as acquired drunk and handed out underneath the tree? Nope. He impaled a mate with an precise dart, from 20 metres away apparently. Worse nonetheless, he had the audacity to counsel it wasn’t his fault.
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“I remember throwing a dart in somebody’s leg before, thinking they were just going to move out the way, just joking around,” he mentioned. “I was about 20 metres away and thought I’ll just lob this towards said person.
“They simply appeared to look at it and watch it and watch it, and it went plonk proper of their leg. I used to be like, ‘You’re supposed to maneuver!’ I did not do it too exhausting. I wasn’t going to announce that to the world however as you’ve got requested.”
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A clip of his bonkers story did the rounds on social media and fans thought it was hilarious and off-putting in equal measure. “Michael Owen is one in every of a form,” one X user said. A second wrote: “What an odd bloke he’s,” while a third joked: “If I used to be caught on a desert island with Michael and a coconut. I might eat Owen and discuss to the coconut.”
A fourth posted: “Actually beginning to like Michael Owen a bit due to his hilarious throwing anecdotes,” while a fifth said: “Michael Owen is bizarre, however endearingly bizarre. Like a mad uncle.”
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Another particular person commented: “[Owen is] The gift that keeps on giving. He’s managed to turn a Christmas ‘confession’ into another story about being great at throwing things from distance,” referring to the anecdote the Liverpool legend revealed on the Up Front With Simon Jordan podcast about throwing apples right into a bin from distance to get approval from his dad when he was a toddler.
“The bin would be by the TV, six metres away or whatever. I would just do it. I had the bravery to miss and for there to be a stain on the wallpaper and my mum to absolutely scream at me and send me upstairs,” Owen informed Jordan. “I wasn’t cocky at all, but the next day I would do the same and I’ll be, bump, and it’ll go right in the middle and my Dad would give me a nod of approval. My mum would be seething, but couldn’t say anything, because it went in.
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“That confidence, that sort of daring, that nod of approval that, ‘I don’t want to get b******ed by my mum here’, but I’m desperate for a little wink, a little nod from my dad, to say, ‘here you cocky little, you know’. That’s what I always yearned as a kid.”