Former England, Watford and West Bromwich Albion goalkeeper Ben Foster has retired at the age of 39.
He said he had been offered a deal by Newcastle United to join as cover for the injured Karl Darlow, but the offer was not enough to leave his family based in the Midlands.
Foster, who also played for Manchester United, was a free agent having left Watford in the summer after four years.
"Deep down I didn't want to do it [turn down Newcastle]," Foster told his podcast, The Cycling GK.
"It sounds mad and it's such a hard thing to explain because there'll be millions of people up and down the country that will say 'you've just been offered a contract, a really good contract, by the richest team in the world to go and be second-choice goalkeeper and be part of something'.