One thing we’ve learned about our readers: they are highly attuned to the various body parts (and body-part behaviour) of their favourite players. Whether it’s the freckle-counters, the hand-obsessed or the hair-watchers, there is something out there for every footy fan.
We’re quite partial to forehead wrinkles and luckily for us, ‘ballers and botox just don’t go together.
As we all know and accept, Steven Gerrard usually has the lock down on the best creases on the pitch, but he’s not without a little crinkly competition.
Let’s analyze what the Manchester United Michaels have to offer:
-Michael Owen at the Windsor races earlier this month.
These wrinkles seem to be of the genuinely concerned variety. Perhaps he left the oven on. Or, he just blew several weeks’ wages on a horse with a wooden leg. Basically, you know that after you confess to nicking his black Amex card and then forgetting it behind the bar at Movida, these would be the wrinkles you would receive.
-Michael Carrick at Manchester Airport on his way to Moscow yesterday.
He looks like he has just been caught doing something naughty. Not adult-level misbehaviour like leaving your house keys at the strip club, though. Certainly not. Michael has either just put itching powder in Rio’s kit bag or switched Nemanja’s mobile phone ring tone to play The Chicken Dance.
We like MC’s version the best. You?

RT: 






Carrick ftw, can he get any cuter?
No.
John O’Shea also has a formidable forehead-wrinkle going on. It’s love.
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