Jermaine Jenas has revealed that he felt worthless following his retirement from football seven years ago.
Jenas enjoyed a 14-year career, playing for the likes of Nottingham Forest – the team he was at when he won the PFA Young Player of the Year in 2002/03 – Newcastle, Tottenham and QPR.
Jenas scored 47 goals in 436 career games, retiring in 2016 and speaking recently on the Learning As I Go podcast, the 40-year old revealed exactly how he felt after hanging up his boots.
“I felt like I was just worthless in the house.
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“I’d gone from being Jermaine Jenas the footballer, walking in every day with your chest out, to nothing.
“As a young footballer, I was fearless. I was in the tunnels with Vieira, Pires, Henry.”
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Now, seven years on from calling it a day on his career, Jenas is enjoying life in punditry and presenting, while he is also a founding member of the Aquinas Foundation, a company that offers football tickets to struggling students at underprivileged schools if they achieve perfect attendance.