{"id":300914,"date":"2023-12-21T14:25:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T14:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/?p=300914"},"modified":"2023-12-21T14:25:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T14:25:40","slug":"michael-owen-baffles-fans-with-dart-throwing-admission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/soccer\/michael-owen-baffles-fans-with-dart-throwing-admission\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Owen BAFFLES fans with dart throwing admission"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Michael Owen BAFFLES fans after recounting an episode where he &#8216;lobbed&#8217; a dart at a person&#8217;s leg&#8230;weeks after he was MOCKED for claiming\u00a0that throwing an apple in a bin helped build &#8216;confidence&#8217; on the football pitch<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Former Liverpool and Real Madrid striker has been ridiculed for a recent story<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He had earlier claimed that throwing an apple in a bin helped build confidence<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span>Roy Keane is right! Virgil van Dijk is disrespectful. We all thought Man United would get pasted so Erik ten Hag was RIGHT to set up like that \u2013 It\u2019s All Kicking Off<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Michael Owen\u00a0has delighted and perplexed fans on social media in equal measure with his latest revelation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The former Liverpool and Real Madrid\u00a0striker was mocked earlier this month after claiming that he\u00a0built &#8216;confidence&#8217; by throwing an apple in a bin at his family home.<\/p>\n<p>Owen,\u00a0one of just six English players to win the Ballon d&#8217;Or, added to a burgeoning catalogue on Tuesday when asked to share a Christmas confession at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year\u00a0awards.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old proceeded to recount an episode where he threw a dart at a person&#8217;s leg expecting them to move. Unfortunately for Owen &#8211; and the person in question &#8211;\u00a0 they did not, leaving the ex-striker stunned as the projectile lodged itself in their skin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I remember throwing a dart in someone&#8217;s leg, thinking they&#8217;re just going to move out the way,&#8217; he told Sport Bible. &#8216;Just joking around &#8211; I was about 20 metres away.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/21\/11\/79210107-12889545-image-a-4_1703159501636.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Michael Owen&#8217;s recent Christmas confession had many on social media scratching their heads<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/21\/11\/79209935-12889545-image-a-1_1703159256246.jpg\" height=\"139\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Fans took to social media to poke fun at the former Liverpool and Real Madrid striker<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/21\/11\/79209937-12889545-image-a-2_1703159259874.jpg\" height=\"110\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/21\/11\/79209933-12889545-image-a-3_1703159264595.jpg\" height=\"98\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Owen has been the subject of much ridicule this month after following his peculiar revelations<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I thought &#8220;I&#8217;ll just lob this one&#8221; towards said person and they just seemed to watch it and watch it before it went &#8216;plonk&#8217; right in their leg.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I was like, &#8220;you were supposed to move&#8221;. I didn&#8217;t do it too hard, I wasn&#8217;t going to announce that to the world.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Football fans on social media were quick to react, with several making note of his comments earlier this month.<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off\u00a0is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football, with a show every Monday and Thursday this season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube , Apple Music and Spotify<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Michael Owen is one of the most extraordinary human beings to have ever existed,&#8217; sarcastically wrote on user on X, formerly Twitter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Darts, apples, is there anything this man can\u2019t throw?&#8217; Wrote another. A third simply added: &#8216;He can\u2019t be real.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/08\/02\/636x90_facebook_ad_sport.png\" width=\"636\" height=\"90\"><br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12889545\/Michael-Owen-BAFFLES-fans-dart-leg-MOCKED-apple-bin-build-confidence-football.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Owen BAFFLES fans after recounting an episode where he &#8216;lobbed&#8217; a dart at a person&#8217;s leg&#8230;weeks after he was MOCKED for claiming\u00a0that throwing an apple in a bin helped build &#8216;confidence&#8217; on the football pitch Former Liverpool and Real Madrid striker&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Michael Owen BAFFLES fans with dart throwing admission - Sports-Life-News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/soccer\/michael-owen-baffles-fans-with-dart-throwing-admission\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Michael Owen BAFFLES fans with dart throwing admission - Sports-Life-News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Michael Owen BAFFLES fans after recounting an episode where he &#8216;lobbed&#8217; 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