Manchester United's new recruit Michael Owen feels he has unfairly been labelled injury prone. The former Liverpool star does not feel the facts bear out such opinions.

"It does irritate me that so many people have doubts," he said.

"But if there is one thing I am angered by, the injury thing would be it.

"There is no doubt I have had injuries in my career. But there is a long list of players that have had a broken metatarsal.

"I was foolish trying to rush back for the World Cup and my leg had just come out of plaster.

"But I played 33 and 32 games in the last two years in a team that was not in Europe and did not go on a decent cup run. Still I was continually labelled injury-prone, which gets up my nose.

"I am 29 and have played over 500 games for club and country. That says it all."