Owen Goal

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Owen Goal is a fictional character from the British comic The Dandy. It centres around a schoolboy who plays for a school football team. The comic strip is one page long and features Owen's interaction with his overweight, lazy and incompitent coach.

It started in the Dandy as reprinted versions of Cannonball Kid from Nutty drawn by Rob Lee, recoloured, given a new masthead of a football shirt with OWEN GOAL on it, and with new speech balloons.

Owen later got new strips drawn by Nigel Parkinson, which played more on Owen's interaction with his coach and at times very poor football skills (the title is a pun on the phrase own goal, combined with the name of the English footballer Michael Owen). Owen continued into the new Dandy, apparently at the same school as Jak.