I don't suppose the fact none of those players has managed six seasons of scoring more than 15 Premiership goals has anything to do with the fact that, of that group, only Drogba has played six seasons in the Premiership, as a starter?
I've scored more goals in my five-a-side league than Cristiano Ronaldo. Doesn't make me a better player than him. Better still, I didn't score them all ten years ago.
You've lost me completely with that second paragraph. Why has your 5-aside league got anything to do with the Premiership, which is what the lets-bash-Owen-with-the-number-20 brigade care about?
Ok, I can kinda follow the '10 years ago' bit, but if people use the phrase "has NEVER", that means we are looking at all of a players career.Those stats were purely used to illustrate the folly of this arbritary number people pull out in reference to Owen about "never scored 20 league goals". But why 20? Why not 15? Why not 30? It's just a number deliberately chosen to make him look bad, so playing devils advocate I chose a number to deliberately make him look good (16+).
As for the first paragraph, first of all, Wayne Rooney has started 24 or more Premiership games for the last SEVEN seasons in a row, never mind six. I'd say that makes him a starter when you take injuries, suspensions and rotation into account.
The reason I rolled off some names was to show that many of the so-called top current strikers can't actually compete with Owen on a given arbitrarily chosen stat. But by all means, pick out your own names of current players who have started six seasons for comparison on the 16+ goal front
Heck, if we want to go down that route of just looking at number of seasons started, even if we say OK, we'll limit it to a number so that the newbies get a chance, they still can't can't manage it more than a couple of times, unlike Owen. What I'm saying is, it's not even a case of me saying nobody has managed 6, of the names I mentioned none of them have even got close.
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