Sir Alex Ferguson: Michael Owen reveals shock after former manager’s scare

Michael Owen conversation

The former Liverpool striker, Michael Owen, was signed by Sir Alex Ferguson in the summer of 2009 and spent three seasons at the club, winning a league and a league cup trophy.

It has been revealed that the former striker was speaking to Sir Alex just hours before the health scare.

In an interview with talkSPORT, Owen stated, “I spoke to him, I was on the phone to him for forty minutes that morning.”

He continued, “we were talking about football. We were talking about horses. As I say, he’s got horses here [at his Manor House Stables]. Most Saturday mornings, he gives me a call, and we go through all the horses for the day, and we share what we know and things like that.”

Owen added, “So yeah, I speak to him regularly, and he sounded absolutely brilliant, sharp as a tack as normal”, contributing to the shock that he had to be rushed to hospital.

The former England international also explained, “it was such a shock to hear, obviously, that the next day he was taken unwell, but hopefully it’s not too serious.”

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