Upon retirement, former elite professional footballers do all sorts of things to pass the time. Some stay in football with management, scouting and coaching roles. While others leave to find very different types of employment across the board. The generation above mine always used to say, 'in the old days ex-players would typically own and run a public house'.
But the era of sportsmen in this arena retiring to the pub seems long gone. An increasingly intelligent, thoughtful and even cerebral post-sport man is emerging. People like Arsenal's former star and subsequent executive Edu Gaspar. He rose from technical director to sporting director in no time.
Then there are former Foxes who went on manage English Football League teams, and enjoyed differing vocational placements. You may, or may not, also be aware that Leicester City's Premier League title-winning captain Wes Morgan went on a postgraduate degree course at the University Campus of Football Business. Another intellectual non-playing asset to the game. And Morgan's current job may surprise some of the King Power outfit's supporters. But why?
Leicester City alum Wes Morgan's job might perhaps shock some Foxes fanatics
According to Daily Star, former pros undertake some weird positions upon leaving the beautiful game. A few go into some not-so-glamorous places of work: making pancakes or even condoms, apparently.
PL-title-winner Danny Drinkwater was spotted on a building site a year or two ago. Though the once City and Chelsea midfielder claimed to merely be enjoying labouring for his own projects.
Although there are those who choose a more cognitive appointment or career when exiting footy. Morgan is one of those. He joined his ex-club Nottingham Forest (a Midlands rival to LCFC) as a 'national scout'.
The 41-year-old is said to 'assist Dan Kelly’s newly formed PDP & Emerging Talent Recruitment Team'. I wonder if the centre back will end up back in Leicestershire at some stage.