<p>Michael Owen enjoyed a stellar career as a prolific striker for England and Liverpool but said he would reflect in retirement on “what might have been” had he not been robbed of his incredible speed due to injury. <br /><br /></p>.<p>Owen, who said on Tuesday he would hang up his boots at the end of the season, burst onto the scene at Liverpool as a 17-year-old and also played at Real Madrid, Newcastle United and Manchester United before signing for Stoke City last year. <br /><br />“The second emotion that lives with me is a sense of ‘what might have been’ had injuries not robbed me of my most lethal weapon -- speed,” Owen wrote on his website (www.michaelowen.com) on Thursday. <br /><br />“Many of my highlights were early on in my career and I can only wonder what more I would have achieved had my body been able to withstand the demands that I was making of it.</p>
<p>Michael Owen enjoyed a stellar career as a prolific striker for England and Liverpool but said he would reflect in retirement on “what might have been” had he not been robbed of his incredible speed due to injury. <br /><br /></p>.<p>Owen, who said on Tuesday he would hang up his boots at the end of the season, burst onto the scene at Liverpool as a 17-year-old and also played at Real Madrid, Newcastle United and Manchester United before signing for Stoke City last year. <br /><br />“The second emotion that lives with me is a sense of ‘what might have been’ had injuries not robbed me of my most lethal weapon -- speed,” Owen wrote on his website (www.michaelowen.com) on Thursday. <br /><br />“Many of my highlights were early on in my career and I can only wonder what more I would have achieved had my body been able to withstand the demands that I was making of it.</p>