Owen hopes to play before end of season

Injured England striker Michael Owen hopes to be back playing for his club Newcastle before the end of the season. Owen suffered a cruciate ligament injury during a World Cup match against Sweden in June and has since had two operations on his...

Injured England striker Michael Owen hopes to be back playing for his club Newcastle before the end of the season. Owen suffered a cruciate ligament injury during a World Cup match against Sweden in June and has since had two operations on his knee.

"I'm confident that I can play again this season. It'll be great if I could," Owen said yesterday. "I have a scan at the turn of the year and as long as everything's knitted together quite nicely we'll press on. Hopefully, I can start jogging in early February.

"It's been a long slog so far and there's still quite a lot of work to be done till I'm back out playing but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel now."

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