A FORMER Chelsea defender is now teaching PE at a £5,000-a-term primary school after helping the Blues win the European Cup Winners’ Cup in 1998.
Danny Granville, 48, was appearing in Blue for the first time since that famous night in Stockholm when Gianfranco Zola scored the only goal of the game against Stuttgart.
News Group Newspapers LtdFormer Chelsea defender Danny Granville (right) is now a PE teacher at a private school in Hertfordshire[/caption]
Danny Granville (third from right) was appearing at the Chelsea Legends game for Gianluca Vialli
That win saw Chelsea lift European silverware for the time since 1971, with Granville playing the full 90 minutes at left-back.
A £300,000 signing from Cambridge United in 1997, the Euro winner played just one season at Stamford Bridge before being sold to bitter rivals Leeds United.
But Chelsea made a £1.5 million profit on the Londoner – selling him for £1.8m – not a bad bit of business for a player whose last game was in Stockholm and who only played 20 matches for the club.
After a season at Elland Road, he went on to play for Man City for two years – helping the club to promotion to the Premier League in 2001 – and for Crystal Palace, where he had his best spell.
The star also helped the Eagles to promotion in 2003-04, playing almost 200 games in south London. He finished his career with brief spells at Colchester United and Leyton Orient before dropping down to non-League with Hemel Hempstead.
Since retiring, Granville became a primary school teacher and is currently the Games Teacher at Duncombe School in Hertfordshire – a primary school where fees range from £4,500-a-term for reception to £6,000-a-term in Year 6.
He has also coached with the Arsenal academy.
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Granville was back at Stamford Bridge to play in the Chelsea Legends game against Bayern Munich, with money being raised in honour of Gianluca Vialli.
The Italian, who sadly died in January this year, was Granville’s player-manager on that famous night 25 years ago.