1999 at Elland Road is a time that should have some significance and warning for Bukayo Saka. Michael Owen suffered a rupture of his hamstring at 19 years of age, two years before he won the Ballon d’Or playing for Liverpool in an away game.
The former Liverpool striker’s words of how this affected him should find their way to the Arsenal starlet considering the minutes being demanded of him at 20 is quite startling. Speaking about his time recovering from the ordeal, Owen admits he was never the same again.
“I wish it had been a broken leg. The worst injury for me was a snapped hamstring because back then you didn't operate, you just allowed them to reattach. I was running with two hamstring muscles in my right leg and three in my left for the rest of my career. It was a point of weakness,” he said.
