Ever wonder where some of the more recognisable football referees are up to now, post-retirement? If so, then cast your gaze below...
Martin Hansson
You may remember Hansson in his previous occupation as Irish Public Victim Number One following his failure to spot Thierry Henry's handball in the World-Cup qualifier. Hansson has since retired from refereeing and now works as a firefighter in Sweden. You can finish the gag from here.
Anders Frisk
Frisk was the victim of the most paranoid and psychotic of Jose Mourinho's public campaigns after the then Chelsea manager accused Frisk of welcoming Barcelona manager Frank Rijkaard into the referee's room at half-time of their Champions League tie in 2005. That claim, along with some decisions perceived to have gone against Chelsea, led to Frisk and his family receiving death threats from Chelsea supporters. The abuse caused Frisk to retire from refereeing.
He is now an Insurance agent, which for a man whose surname is almost completely consisting of the word 'risk', is magnificent.
He is pictured above with John Delaney at the launch of the FAI's Referee Development Plan in 2007.
Tom Henning Ovrebo
Ovrebo is another European referee to have gained the ire of Chelsea fans over a tie against Barcelona. Ovrebo dismissed a number of legitimate penalty appeals for Chelsea in the 2009 Champions League semi-final at Stamford Bridge, and earned this crazed response from Didier Drogba, in which Richard Keys explained to Drogba what you are not permitted to say in front of a television camera. (If anyone is qualified to comment...)
Ovrebo has also retired from refereeing and is a trained psychologist. You hope he doesn't think about reflect on this game very often.
Pierluigi Collina
Collina was regarded as the finest referee in the game before retiring in 2005 having reached the mandatory retirement age of 45. Despite his reputation, he made an error in his final game between Everton and Villareal in the 2005/06 Champions League qualifier in disallowing a legitimate Everton goal that would have sent the game to extra time and averted Everton's exit.
In contrast to his reputation in one half of Merseyside, Collina is popular in Turkey given that neither the Turkish national team nor any Turkish club have lost a game in which Collina has refereed.
Collina is currently UEFA's head of referees and, randomly, has been the head of the referees in Ukraine since 2010.
Collina also appeared on the cover of Pro Evo 3 and Pro Evo 4, and in this bizarre advert for Japanese food frozen takoyaki:
Jeff Winter
Following retirement after the 2004 FA Cup final, Winter has refereed the Master's Football tournaments that are broadcast on Sky, and released an autobiography charmingly titled 'Who's The Bastard In Black'.
Winter also runs his own website which describes him as "top media personality Jeff Winter". (Note the modest decision not to call himself "top,top media personality". To quote from the site:
Jeff is free to speak about his experiences with true candidness, his dealings with the most controversial and volatile players and his experience of the management elite.
It got a little too volatile in 2012, where he was arrested following a vile anti-Catholic rant on the site.
Uriah Rennie
Rennie was the referee who sent off Roy Keane for elbowing Jason McAteer in the Premier League back in 2003. Rennie has had a varied career. He is a qualified magistrate and has also made a number of appearances on television.
Last year, Rennie appeared as the referee in bizarre, curling-based ITV gameshow Freeze Out, a show described by the guardian as "a game show that feels a little bit like being trapped in a coma and screaming to get out".
2015, year of Uriah Rennie's TV domination https://t.co/Pb03vCHlbq
— James Dart (@James_Dart) December 31, 2015
Earlier that year, Rennie appeared as himself in BAFTA-winning television drama 'Marvellous' alongside Toby Jones in 2014.
Graham Poll
Since retiring, Poll has carved out a media career. He had a column with the Daily Mail and regularly reviews the morning papers on Sky News. He has also appeared on reprehensible Sky One show A League of Their Own, revealing he is a QPR fan.
Ali Bin Nasser
Ali Bin Nasser is better known as the man who missed Diego Maradona's handball against England in the 1986 World Cup. We don't know his current occupation, but we are including him here to reveal that he was visited by Maradona in his Tunisian home in 2015 where he offered Bin Nasser an Argentine shirt, declaring him "my eternal friend".
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