Hungry customers queue up outside Podolski’s kebab shop as ex-Arsenal star’s mural is defaced with nose hair graffiti

HUNGRY customers queued down the road to grab a bit from Lukas Podolski’s kebab shop – as the former Arsenal star saw his famous mural defaced.

The Antalyaspor forward, 34, runs six Mangal Doner eateries, including four in home city Cologne.

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Savvy businessman Podolski also owns an ice-cream parlour, a pub and a clothes shop and is considered a legend in the city in which he kicked off his professional career.

Germany has been easing its lockdown in the past week after faring better than its European neighbours following an aggressive policy of Covid-19 mass testing.

That has allowed those bored to tears of cooking for themselves every night out of the house to grab a bite to eat.

And an army of Cologne locals flocked to one of Podolski’s kebab shops to grab a cheeky takeaway.

However, it may not last long, after it was revealed Germany are on the brink of a second-wave of coronavirus – with fears the lockdown measures may have been eased to soon.

On Friday, infections reached a five-day high and there was a huge spike in the daily death toll.

And Podolski saw his famous mural in Cologne vandalised as Germans returned to the streets.

The incredible artwork on Zulpicher Strasse – the “party street” of the city – was defaced, with bushy tufts of brown hair being drawn coming out of his nose.

Podolski was given a monobrow, too.

The forward kicked off his career in Cologne, first playing for their youth team between 1995 and 2003, before breaking into their first-team.

His hot form saw him snapped up by Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich in 2006, before he rejoined Cologne in 2009.

Since then, Podolski has enjoyed stints at Arsenal, Inter Milan (on loan), Galatasaray, Vissel Kobe and now Antalyaspor.

Podolski recently admitted he hopes to have one more stint at Cologne in him before he hangs up his boots.