Jack Wilshere scored two exceptional goals during England’s 3-2 win against Slovenia in Euro qualifiers. His second was the best of the bunch though, and it earned high praise from Match of the Day’s Gary Lineker, illustrating the widespread tendency to confuse the latest great goal for the greatest.
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Michael Owen is the most interesting boring man in the world
Michael Owen is both intensely boring and uniquely odd.
The only Englishman to win the Ballon d’Or in the last 35 years retired to a life of horse racing, lifeless product endorsement and banal punditry in 2013, making him a veritable renaissance man of blandness.