5 ex-Chelsea players with strange careers post-football: Weah, Nevin…

When a footballer retires, two options immediately become available: coaching or punditry. The vast majority go down one of these paths but for these Chelsea players, neither appealed quite enough.

Stamford Bridge has seen many legends through its doors and, in the last decade, we have seen Frank Lampard and John Terry announce their retirement from the playing game with both going into the coaching world.

But what other options are out there for footballers? These five ex-Blues broke the mould when they retired.

While Peacock did do the whole pundit thing for a while, he eventually packed it in to teach people about Jesus and focused all his attention on being a Christian preacher.

He even presented a feature on Football Focus on faith in the game before jetting off to Canada to complete a three-year master’s degree in divinity. The former midfielder can now be found addressing his congregation in Calgary.

Skilful winger, forensic pundit and… indie club DJ?

Nevin played for Chelsea for five years in the 80s but upon retiring from football entirely in 2000, did not want to continue focusing all his energy on it. So he got an arts degree from Glasgow University and a set of decks and has been seen popping up at festivals and indie nightclubs in the years since.

It is not known whether he takes requests.

Leboeuf spent five years at Chelsea but clearly, his heart always yearned for the silver screen.

During his playing days, the former centre-back even managed to rack up a few credits. He made his film debut in the post-war drama Taking Sides in 2001 while still a Chelsea player.

However, the peak of his acting career undoubtedly came when he appeared in the Oscar-winning Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything as a