What ex-footballers are doing now
Here are some more interesting jobs ex-players had after taking off their boots…
■ Wolves’ record goalscorer Steve Bull is now the Black Country club’s P.R.O.
■ Ray Daniel, ex-Cardiff, Hull, Luton and Portsmouth defender, works here in Spain (Turre) as a personal trainer.
■ Ray Graydon, a 1975 LC winner with Aston Villa is a PL referee assessor.
■ George Shipley, once Charlton, Lincoln and Southampton,
works as an executive driver for BCA logistics.
■ Simon Garner, the former Blackburn and WBA striker is a painter & decorator
■ Stuart Ripley, the former Middlesbrough star, is a qualified French teacher and criminologist.
■ Ken Monkou, ex-Southampton and Chelsea, is an ambassador for the Show Racism the Red Card campaign, having earlier run a pan-cake shop!
■ David Hiller, once of Arsenal, is a fire-fighter.
■ John Chiedozie, a Spurs winger rents out bouncy castles in Dorset seaside resorts and plays competitive golf.
■ Ex-Newcastle defender Phillippe Albert runs his own fruit and veg business in Belgium
■ Barry Horne, ex-Everton and Southampton, works at the Kings School in Chester, teaching physics.
■ Marco Gabbiadini, a striker with Sunderland and Birmingham, runs a successful B&B with his wife in York.
■ Ex-Barnsley and Portsmouth defender Arjan de Zueew is a police detective in his home country of Belgium. ■ Striker Kevin Francis, once of Stockport and Birmingham, is a police officer, a member Canada’s gang squad. ■ Lee Bowyer, ex-Newcastle and Leeds, is a fisherman on his own lake – Orconte – in France.
■ The former WBA, Southampton, Stoke and England left-back Derek Statham, now retired, is living in Marina de Casares, here in Spain.