Owen’s tweet congratulating 19-year-old tennis champion on SPOTY Award included image of himself in 1998
She has achieved an incredible amount at the age of 19, capping off a fantastic year with a BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award.
Emma Raducanu is so young that she was not even born when the footballer Michael Owen was a teenage athlete, captivating the nation with a summer of similarly precocious performances. Which is perhaps why he felt the need to educate her.