FROM GRACE TO GRASS... Former Premier League Player Who Earned £10,000-a-week Now Earns £800

From Grace to ship Grass. Former Sunderland player, Kevin Kyle, who formerly earned £10,000-a-week  now earns £800 working a 12-hour shift on a ship stacking boxes & cleaning toilets.
Kevin, 33,  said he had no choice but to take the job.
 
      He said “I’m trying to provide for my family. Many footballers pick up jobs after football but I don’t see stories about them in the newspapers. I don’t really want to publicize my lifestyle in the newspapers about whether I have a job or don’t have a job. I have to work at some point to put food on the table and to provide for my family.”
The dad of 3 was jobless for 6 months after his contract with League One minnows Ayr United was scrapped in January.


Managers on the ship reportedly warned his new co-workers not to discuss Kevin's former life as a footballer or bring it up with him 

    "Kevin started work on the ship earlier this month. It’s sad really to see someone who was obviously well-loved by the fans seemingly ending his career relatively early." A source said
 His duties include cleaning floors and toilets, making beds and stocking up supplies on the ship. Continue...

Apart from Sunderland where he last played in 2006, Kevin also played for Coventry, Kilmarnock, Hearts, and Rangers.

In a 2010 newspaper interview he said:

    “Sometimes in life money is not everything. I know a lot of people disagree with that but I had all the money years ago when I played with Sunderland and Coventry and I p***** it up a wall gambling. So money doesn’t always make you happy. The happiest I have been was the first year at Kilmarnock, playing football and knowing what my wage was.”