Owen is one of a handful of baseball players who, despite otherwise solid careers, are remembered as goats thanks to a single play that helped blow a big game for his team.
Anglo-Saxon sceptics about Europe's single currency gleefully predict that these strains will blow the euro apart, just as they did the exchange-rate mechanism in the early 1990s.
Instead of putting on a false facade where we keep it together at work, only to have our home life blow up in divorce, affairs, family disintegration, or single parenting.