After struggling with a debilitating knee injury for most of his career, Tottenham’s Ledley King has called time on his playing days, and hung up his boots at just 31.
Known for his reading of the game, aerial ability and coolness under the utmost pressure, King was a model professional and showed a steely determination to soldier on and keep playing, when many others would have thrown in the towel much earlier.
But for his injuries King could easily have been one of the best defenders to play the game, he would have almost certainly tripled the 21 England caps he won.
He also bucked the modern trend and remained loyal to Tottenham, when if he had really wanted to, he could have walked into the starting 11 for any of Europe’s marquee clubs.
Like many other top-class players King kept himself to himself and let his football do the talking, an alien concept to many of his Premier League and England colleagues.
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