In Owens case I think he was an over exploited resource that they played to death when he was at Liverpool........he was loyal to that club and should have got on his bike long before he did.
If he had made the moves to the big clubs earlier, where they had a stronger squad and would not have needed to keep knocking the bollocks out of the kid week in/week out he would have got proper care, rest and brought back to his full potential imho
f*****g shame, but I will always maintain that Liverpool ruined that kid.......jmho
I don,t know about ruined Wilf , there was a definate differ