Legend Ledley King Retires After 14 years in Tottenham First Team; Plus More EPL Headlines
Tottenham Hotspur legend Ledley King today announced his retirement from football. The incredibly gifted defender with a long history of knee injuries has decided to hang up his boots and will now become a club ambassador.
There’s no doubting how skilled Ledley King was, and how much of an impact he had on the team. For a good glimpse at how influential of a player he was, read EPL Talk’s article Long Live The King: How Crucial Ledley King Is To Tottenham Hotspur.
Here are the Premier League news-related headlines for today:
- Ledley King retires after 14 years in Tottenham first team — The Guardian
- Luka Modric will not leave Tottenham for less than £35m says Andre Villas-Boas — The Daily Mail
- Gylfi Sigurdsson scores on debut as Tottenham beat Stevenage — The Guardian
- AmaZulu 0 Manchester United 1: match report — The Telegraph
- His five minute debut: Shinji Kagawa (Manchester United) v AmaZulu — 101 Great Goals
- Traveling roster for Stoke City FC announced in advance of Columbus visit — Columbus Crew FC
- Everton promises to play a friendly in Thailand next year — ToffeeWeb
- FOX Sports will air Liverpool TV documentary on FOX free-to-air network in US — FOX Soccer
- Spanish midfielder Michu is undergoing a medical at Swansea ahead of a move — Sky Sports
- Chelsea prevails 4-2 in friendly — Seattle Sounders
- Eden Hazard & Marko Marin start their Chelsea careers with goals v Seattle — 101 Great Goals
- Lucas Leiva to return early from injury to play in pre-season friendlies — The Independent
11 Responses to Legend Ledley King Retires After 14 years in Tottenham First Team; Plus More EPL Headlines
Club legend. Long live Ledley.
Best defender england has produced in the past 20 years.
Better than Rio Ferdinand in his prime?
was talking in terms of talent and understanding of the game, “MUFC”77
Even in terms of talent and reading the game he still wouldn’t be ahead of ferinand and I’m not saying that Just because I’m a utd fan.
Unfortunately we will neve know how good king could have been with his injury issues over the years. Always sad to see good players from any team forced to retire early through injury.
A real shame his knee hindered his true potential, especially on the international stage, clearly a more voted defender than anyone else, it was s pleasure watching him at the lane all this years ago.
Ledley King was also a rare player who stayed with one team during his prime years. You also to give him a hand for coming back from injuries and most likely having to play in considerable pain as well.
Hopefully for his sake he hasn’t put his long term health at risk playing so long on bad knees. Good to see spurs will keep him involved in the club.
Much respect to Ledley. He was phenomenal when fit and on form. Best of his generation? I would disagree simply on his number of performances but had he been fit more consistently def in with a shout.
To be inolved for 14 years at the top level with those injurys and Spurs to keep him on says allot.
Eight yellow cards in his whole career! Thats a measure of the type of defender he was, a real Rolls Royce of a centre-half.
Impressed with Spurs’ class in keeping him on. I think it is a smart move, but they certainly didn’t have to do that.