After joining as a youth trainee at 16 from school, in my first two or three years the club was on a financial downward spiral and there was none of the new sparkling kit and the sparkling conditions that the kids get now.

When I joined it was at the same time that he came back to the club after running a few sports shops and it was very lucky for me, he saw something in me as a 16-year-old that he saw in himself,

We had to be down early to get the best stuff for the pros we looked after and then get the rags that we were left ourselves for training. It seems very old school but it grounded me as a person and made me appreciate everything as a footballer, because all we got was a pair of boots.

All the kids are out of school. They're our biggest audience.

I've read the original and I'm really looking forward to reading the new chapters by Hilary and Willie's kids,

At summer club meets he kind of coaches little kids at Hillside.