Robbie Fowler: I was better than Liverpool teammate Michael Owen in every way except one

Robbie Fowler believes he was a better striker than his former teammate Michael Owen in every aspect except for one.

The Liverpool-born star played 369 games across two spells for his boyhood club he joined at the age of nine.

He also made 26 appearances for England, netting seven times for his country. He struggled to be a regular for the Three Lions though and has since admitted he never truly felt part of the set-up.

Fowler sat down with talkSPORT co-host host Simon Jordan as part of William Hill's 'Up Front with Simon Jordan' YouTube show to discuss his career and the pair were touching on Fowler struggling to get game time for England.

On the other hand, his Liverpool teammate Owen, who won the the Ballon d'Or in 2001, won 89 caps and scored 40 goals.

That's despite Fowler netting more goals for the Reds — 183 in total — whilst Owen scored 158.

When asked if it irritated him that Owen appeared to be taken so readily into the England set up while he was an afterthought, he said: «Not at the time, I know what you're saying and of course you're upset not to be playing.

»But did I want Michael to fail or him not to do well? Of course I wanted to play but I didn't want Michael to not succeed.

«I'm just saying from my point of view, I think players are sort of one dimensional in terms of looking after ourselves, we've always done that.

»You know, I think that's why I scored [how many I did] because you are a little bit selfish. I think you probably need to be in all honesty. But if you think of a footballing person and the way they are and they way people's perception of it is, I think Michael's perception was he thought more of England than his club.

«But with mine, I thought more of my club than England. Now, it could've been