Owen believes coaching England is a far harder task than any club job he can think of.
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Owen: "It is probably harder to manage England than any club.
"There is a lot of pressure involved and because the manager doesn't get to see the players as often as they would at club level, if you have a bad result, you have to live with it for a month or two, which must be really hard.
"If you have a good game, everything is great, if you don't you get criticised. I always feel like I can never relax but that is especially the case for Steve.
"We can still get through, Israel is a tough place to go.
"They have a cracking home record, which bears that out.
"There is a lot of uncertainty around at the moment but the key thing is to ensure we are in the right frame of mind to take advantage if someone does us a favour. It would be criminal if that wasn't the case.
"However, there is no hiding the fact we should be qualifying out of this group."