Taking his position up in various cosy BBC Sport studios, Jermaine Jenas has most definitely looked the part in his newly acquired punditry role since retiring, having made his last professional appearance in April 2014, during QPR’s 5-2 Championship win over his first club, Nottingham Forest.
Only, during all that time pretending to laugh at Linekers jokes and being bemused by everything Ruud Gullit says, the man hadn’t in fact been retired at all.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4‘s Today Show, the 32 year old former Newcastle and Spurs midfielder announced to the world that his dodgy knees had finally gotten the better of him.
He commented;
I have officially retired. I tried my best to come back from the knee injury but unfortunately that is the end of my career.
Gobsmacked.
A genuinely decent player whenever he could get a decent string of games together, certainly a shame he couldn’t carry on doing a job for a lower league side.