If you play for Liverpool football club, there are certain unwritten rules that you must never break. One is joining Everton, and the other is joining Manchester United. Someone forgot to tell Michael Owen that because in 2009 he signed for the Reds' fierce rivals United, forever ensuring he would always be remembered as a Judas figure on Merseyside. Liverpool fans must have choked on their morning cereal when then opened their newspapers on July 3rd 2009, only to be greeted with the image of their former idol posing in a cozy embrace with Sir Alex Ferguson. The former Liverpool hero had all-but shaken hands with the devil, or in this case, the Red Devil. Owen made 297 appearances for the Reds and scored 158 goals, including 118 in the Premier League, but he lost his 'legendary status' the day he went to Old Trafford, and is now remembered in the terraces at Anfield with bitterness and disdain.
Joseph is an accredited football journalist and has interviewed nearly all of the current 20 Barclay's Premier League managers. He is also a correspondent for Bleacher Report and has written for Caught Offside and Give Me Football.
