From The Daily Express:
Former Liverpool, Newcastle and United star Michael Owen [is] worried about [English football]...
“You couldn't get on this pitch out here when I was a kid,” he says, “You would have to get here at six in the morning to use a goalmouth.
"Every single person was playing football and if you couldn't get a goal you would have to stick a jumper down. Now the computers and the iPhones are winning the battle.”
Yes, bloody kids today, all stuck inside playing console games, like er, Michael Owen's World League Soccer 99