If you judge him only by his uninspiring punditry and his total and utter disinterest in cinema, Michael Owen wouldn't seem like the most emotional guy in the planet. So that's why we were shocked and inspired to see Michael Owen's outpouring of grief to Brown Panther after the horse was put down yesterday.
It's the saddest day of my life. The toughest, most honest, most brilliant horse I will ever set eyes on passed a... https://t.co/WEoUdHDeZ0
— michael owen (@themichaelowen) September 13, 2015
Me and my boy. pic.twitter.com/LDNinY0d3p
— michael owen (@themichaelowen) September 13, 2015
Owen described the day as the saddest in his life, and it's clear in this video he saw Brown Panther as much more than a four-legged money-making creature. "I love you so much," he says twice, before patting the horse a few times. There is a caricature in the media of Owen as something like an android, spouting punditry cliches as if they were autogenerated by Twitter search terms, but his relationship with Brown Panther, both in good times and bad, provided a different perspective on the striker. He loved that horse.
Genuinely speechless at the kind messages on here today. Thank You. — michael owen (@themichaelowen) September 13, 2015
EDIT - The original version of the post was written under the impression that the above footage was filmed yesterday.
