Royal Ascot 2015: The injuries still haunt Michael Owen in life after football

Michael Owen knows the feeling only too well; first the agony, then the awful realisation that injury has ruled him out of a major event, in his case a World Cup. This was the man who ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament in a warm-up game ahead of the 2006 finals in Germany. For an international footballer, the timing could not have been more devastating.