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biccynana
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Unusual post-playing careers

Post by biccynana » Fri Mar 05, 2021 9:24 pm

Not sure how this nugget has eluded me for 13 years, but I've only just discovered that Matty Appleby became a qualified deep sea diver after he hung up his boots https://web.archive.org/web/20081221143 ... the-plunge. Any other interesting post-playing careers of ex-DFC players anyone knows of?

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Re: Unusual post-playing careers

Post by tdk1 » Fri Mar 05, 2021 11:01 pm

Presume you've seen the josh gray article in the echo yesterday?

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Re: Unusual post-playing careers

Post by jjljks » Sat Mar 06, 2021 9:09 am

biccynana wrote:
Fri Mar 05, 2021 9:24 pm
Not sure how this nugget has eluded me for 13 years, but I've only just discovered that Matty Appleby became a qualified deep sea diver after he hung up his boots https://web.archive.org/web/20081221143 ... the-plunge. Any other interesting post-playing careers of ex-DFC players anyone knows of?
Surely he just swapped football boots for diving boots, not hung them up?😄

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Re: Unusual post-playing careers

Post by biccynana » Sat Mar 06, 2021 4:20 pm

tdk1 wrote:
Fri Mar 05, 2021 11:01 pm
Presume you've seen the josh gray article in the echo yesterday?
I hadn't, actually, so thanks. Good example!

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Post by biccynana » Sat Mar 06, 2021 4:21 pm

jjljks wrote:
Sat Mar 06, 2021 9:09 am
biccynana wrote:
Fri Mar 05, 2021 9:24 pm
Not sure how this nugget has eluded me for 13 years, but I've only just discovered that Matty Appleby became a qualified deep sea diver after he hung up his boots https://web.archive.org/web/20081221143 ... the-plunge. Any other interesting post-playing careers of ex-DFC players anyone knows of?
Surely he just swapped football boots for diving boots, not hung them up?😄
Arf! Would like to see him win a header wearing a pair of those.

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Re: Unusual post-playing careers

Post by jjljks » Sun Mar 07, 2021 9:15 am

biccynana wrote:
Sat Mar 06, 2021 4:21 pm
jjljks wrote:
Sat Mar 06, 2021 9:09 am
biccynana wrote:
Fri Mar 05, 2021 9:24 pm
Not sure how this nugget has eluded me for 13 years, but I've only just discovered that Matty Appleby became a qualified deep sea diver after he hung up his boots https://web.archive.org/web/20081221143 ... the-plunge. Any other interesting post-playing careers of ex-DFC players anyone knows of?
Surely he just swapped football boots for diving boots, not hung them up?😄
Arf! Would like to see him win a header wearing a pair of those.
Or a bicycle overhead kick! 🤣🤣

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Re: Unusual post-playing careers

Post by theoriginalfatcat » Sun Mar 07, 2021 12:38 pm

A number of our players were wearing diving boots when Hornchurch scored their first goal.
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