After Football
After retiring from playing he moved into business, working in the sporting goods trade for Gola and Diadora until his retirement in 1997, and wrote his autobiography, entitled Tappy.
He died on 12 June 2008, leaving his wife Glenys, two daughters and three grandchildren. In 2012, his old local team Barry Town inducted him into the Barry Town hall of fame.
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Famous quotes containing the word football:
“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)
“Idon’t enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people’s amusement. I enjoy it if I’m being paid a lot for it.”
—David Storey (b. 1933)