By Chris Wright
A bungling would-be burglar provided the Friday night entertainment for Michael Owen and his family the day before his Stoke City debut, after the wee chap spotted a suspicious figure loitering outside his North Wales home on his personal security system and decided to relay details of the rubbish robbery via Twitter while waiting for the police to turn up…
The police then turned up a few minutes later and swiftly arrested the man – who presumably assumed that Owen would be elsewhere the day before his Potters bow – as he laid low in the back of his bright turquoise van.