The location provides care for more than 100 horses.

He claims nothing compares to football and that he was destined to be a top striker, even though he has since retired and started owning racehorses.

“I was put on this Earth to score goals, to be adored by people, and to be sung to,” he told Five.

“I needed to find something that gives you that buzz when you are loved like that and all of a sudden you can’t do it anymore.”

Owen became passionate about horses and now runs Manor House Stables in Cheshire, home to more than a hundred stallions.

He was first drawn to horses when he was 23, when he first started working in the field.

Owen clarified, though: “The truth is that there will never, ever be a buzz like scoring a goal—especially a crucial one—in the final seconds of a game, at the World Cup, or something similar. That’s the reason you exist.

However, I put these [stables] in place ten years before I retired, and I still enjoy what I do when I wake up in the morning.

Owen scored 40 goals for England

Owen won the Ballon d’Or in 2001

After a brief tenure at Stoke, Owen retired in 2013 and continues to be active as a racehorse owner and breeder.

The forty-three-year-old maintains a stable with more than a hundred horses, some of which are owned by current Premier League players, Sir Alex, and Ian Wright.

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The website has been “20 years in the making,” according to Owen.

He revealed: “Paul Scholes, Steve McManaman, Owen Hargreaves and Andy Townsend bought a horse together and we called it Box-to-Box because we are all on the tele and half the people in the syndicate are midfielders.

“He has been an incredible star; he has enjoyed himself immensely and has won four or five races.”

Owen looks after horses for footballers and managers like Sir Alex Ferguson

He says the stables are “20 years in the making”

Michael Owen has had a passion for horses since his days at Liverpool