A FORMER Prem ace traded boots for batter after quitting soccer and shopping for a pancake store.
The defender tallied slightly below 300 Premier League appearances for Chelsea and Southampton.
He performed 94 of those for the Blues and 198 video games for the Saints as a centre-back after beginning out at Feyenoord.
The Dutchman bagged ten targets for Southampton from the again and supplied nice assist to them throughout relegation battles.
The previous star, now 58, performed with some world-class gamers resembling Matt Le Tissier.
On the finish of his profession, he moved from the South Coast to Huddersfield City for a two-year spell.
And we are able to reveal the person who flipped from soccer to pancakes is Ken Monkou.
When discovering out that a pancake store was up on the market, Monkou determined to purchase it.
His household had a historical past of operating a bar bistro so he selected to pursue an identical route by following a profession in meals after retiring from soccer in 2001.
Monkou advised Planetfootball: “It’s fairly a distinction, from enjoying to standing behind the range flipping the pancakes.
“It’s good, although, and for me it’s sport.
“When you’re busy it will get you going and also you’re making an attempt to make 150 pancakes a day. I don’t reckon any of the current gamers would do it.”
Monkou additionally works on Chelsea TV and is an envoy for the Present Racism the Pink Card marketing campaign.
On account of these different occupations Monkou shut down the pancake store in 2009.
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