‘I was 90s star branded Prem’s biggest flop – now I deliver parcels for living’
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Infamous Premier League flop Marco Boogers has turned his back on football to deliver parcels for a living instead.
The Dutch forward, now 56, went down in footy folklore as one of the worst transfers of all-time after his £1million arrival at West Ham in the summer of 1995.
In just his second substitute appearance for the Hammers, he was almost immediately sent off for a studs-up challenge on Manchester United star Gary Neville – earning himself an increased four-match ban.
The horror tackle was so bad it was even suggested he'd been hired to purposefully injure one of Sir Alex Ferguson's players. Boogers went on to play just twice more in the Prem, with both of those outings coming from the bench too.
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He was given permission to return to his native Netherlands by manager Harry Redknapp after undergoing emergency surgery on a knee injury, which was set to sideline him for three months.
While he was away Redknapp moved quickly to sign Iain Dowie in the winter window to replace him, and Boogers never returned to east London as a result – spending the rest of the season out on loan before leaving permanently that summer.
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Nowadays he's far away from a football pitch as he's helping to run a family courier business. Speaking about his change of job, Boogers told ElfVoetbal: "During my playing career my wife Patricia wasn't able to work, as she was looking after our kids.
"When I retired I told her: 'It's your time now.' The firm has grown bigger and faster than we ever thought it might."
Boogers' son was set to follow in his footsteps, but he too has opted to go in a different direction. "My son Quincy will take over from us," he continued.
"He was a good footballer with Dordrecht, but they didn't renew his contract – he just lacked that bit of toughness. He went to Germany to sign a three-year deal with Wuppertaler SV.
"But he rang us to say he hadn't signed, as he wanted to work for a logistics centre in Utrecht."
Boogers, who had a brief stint as a manager after hanging up his boots, has completely fallen out of love with the game, so much so that he isn't even a fan anymore. "I am done with the world of football," he said.
"I regularly get invitations from my former clubs to attend matches, but never go. I just watched one game last season, when I went with a business contact.
"We have had an executive box for 10 people at Dordrecht for four seasons now. I have just been twice in all that time."
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