Right from the time Michael Owen, the blue-eyed-boy of Liverpool hailing from the red half of Merseyside, made his debut at the tender age of 17, no Liverpudlian could so much as dare inveigh into him. In the eyes of the Liverpool faithful, he was seen as infallible.

IOB who were once a force to be reckoned with in Tamil Nadu hockey are no longer engendering the same kind of awe that they did in their opponents with such effortless ease in the years gone by.

Cle