Des Tuddenham - Life Post-Football

Life Post-Football

Tuddenham ran a plastics manufacturing business, which he sold in 1979. He later worked as a scrap-metal dealer.

Tuddenham had four children. One of them, Paul, played 40 games for Collingwood from 1987 to 1991.

Since retirement, Tuddenham has been in trouble with the law on several occasions.

• In December 1980, Tuddenham was found guilty by a County Court jury of having received stolen tyres valued at $30,000, and was remanded in custody.

• In June 1989, Tuddenham pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiring to defraud the Victorian Automobile Chamber of Commerce of $13,000. He told the magistrate that he was "guilty on the grounds I was helping out a friend in trouble."

• In July 2004, it was reported that Tuddenham had received a two-month sentence suspended for two years for his third drink-driving offence. He was ordered to pay a A$500 fine and had his driving licence cancelled for 30 months.

Tuddenham was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2008.

In 2009 The Australian nominated Tuddenham as one of the 25 greatest footballers never to win a Brownlow medal.