Owen and Vaughan return for the best.

Michael Owen returns to the England Football fray after a long term injury stay away and Michael Vaughan returns to the England Cricket setup. It would be cruel to bet against them completing their matches but that’s what betting’s all about.

We wish them well on their return and hope that they can both prove that they are worth there places so soon after returning from recovery. Questions marks will be over whether they are match fir and have played enough to be sharp at the highest level.

Michael Owen will be a boost to the England front line, as Steve McClaren mentioned this morning, “we need strikers”. It’s worrying that we don’t have the strength in dept to the England squad, even now. We strive to find goal scorers of Owens’ calibre and pace to support Rooney and create some space for them both to use in attack. Owen will pull defenders off Rooney more as he shows he can outflank them with his superb turn of speed.

The return of Owen will make a difference to Football Betting Odds in Englands’ favour.

 Michael Vaughan in the cricket, on the other hand, is a worry as to whether he can just stay fit for one test at the moment but, more importantly, he could do with a big score to prove that he is worth his place. We have too many players now that could develop quickly for England if their given their time to learn and improve their game in the test arena. Shah didn’t take his first chance in the first test against the Windies but make no mistake – he is a player of class and will be back!

That said, if Michael Vaughan can get going again, cricket betting on England will show us as favourites more often than not. He will strengthen our middle order but he will have to be consistent with Bell and Collingwood constantly proving tha they’re now permanent fixtures in the England test side.