Post by QPR Report on Mar 16, 2010 13:03:33 GMT
Football League
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: ANDY McCULLOCH
Posted on: 16.03.2010
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Andy McCulloch made a clean break from football - to go into the industrial cleaning business.
The former Sheffield Wednesday, Brentford, Queens Park Rangers and Crystal Palace forward had a 15-year career as a professional, which started at Loftus Road in 1970.
But it was at Hillsborough where he had his greatest success, helping the Owls to promotion in 1981. He hammered home 18 goals to help them up into Division Two.
It was his killer instinct in front of goal that in 1983 led to a £20,000 move to Crystal Palace.
But he only lasted one season at Selhurst Park before taking a trip to Aldershot, where he suffered a career-ending knee injury in 1985.
Rather than go into the risky world of football management, McCulloch decided to go into the cleaning business and bought into part of a franchise.
McCulloch, 60, said: "The football profession had become very precarious. A lot of friends were getting the sack so I decided to become my own boss and go into the cleaning business.
"I reckoned it would be a service that's always going to be required. I joined a cleaning franchise the following year after I retired and worked with them, learning the trade and picking people's brains about the business."
In 1989 McCulloch decided he had learned enough to go out and try to clean up on his own - and so he formed Cardinal Cleaning which he still owns to this day.
He added: "We deal mainly with the big London hotels. We also have several hundred small customers, mostly domestic, to look after as well. We keep very busy.
"I am very happy doing what I am doing. I am still playing the best game I can, but it happens to be in cleaning."
www.football-league.co.uk/features/20100316/where-are-they-now-andy-mcculloch_2249035_1995571
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: ANDY McCULLOCH
Posted on: 16.03.2010
.
Andy McCulloch made a clean break from football - to go into the industrial cleaning business.
The former Sheffield Wednesday, Brentford, Queens Park Rangers and Crystal Palace forward had a 15-year career as a professional, which started at Loftus Road in 1970.
But it was at Hillsborough where he had his greatest success, helping the Owls to promotion in 1981. He hammered home 18 goals to help them up into Division Two.
It was his killer instinct in front of goal that in 1983 led to a £20,000 move to Crystal Palace.
But he only lasted one season at Selhurst Park before taking a trip to Aldershot, where he suffered a career-ending knee injury in 1985.
Rather than go into the risky world of football management, McCulloch decided to go into the cleaning business and bought into part of a franchise.
McCulloch, 60, said: "The football profession had become very precarious. A lot of friends were getting the sack so I decided to become my own boss and go into the cleaning business.
"I reckoned it would be a service that's always going to be required. I joined a cleaning franchise the following year after I retired and worked with them, learning the trade and picking people's brains about the business."
In 1989 McCulloch decided he had learned enough to go out and try to clean up on his own - and so he formed Cardinal Cleaning which he still owns to this day.
He added: "We deal mainly with the big London hotels. We also have several hundred small customers, mostly domestic, to look after as well. We keep very busy.
"I am very happy doing what I am doing. I am still playing the best game I can, but it happens to be in cleaning."
www.football-league.co.uk/features/20100316/where-are-they-now-andy-mcculloch_2249035_1995571
