Roeder said: "I am now hopeful that Michael Owen will be back playing before the end of the season."

罗德表示：“我现在非常希望迈克尔欧文会在这个赛季结束之前上场比赛。”

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Roeder has now said the striker, Newcastle's record transfer buy, can now begin what will be a long road to full fitness following a very successful operation.

罗德说这位在纽卡转会史上创造纪录的球员，在成功的手术之后可以开始漫长的完全恢复期了。

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The drop to third place has gone unnoticed because of the way official statistics are tracked, Roeder said.

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Even a 10-year estimate doesn't completely eliminate the problem, because one extreme year will skew the result, Roeder said.

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But safety campaigns kicked off in 2001 sharply dropped the number of lightning deaths each year, so that 30-year average consistently overestimates fatalities because it includes data from before the recent decline, Roeder said.

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