Career After Football
He retired from football at 37-years-old, managing a public house at Stamford Bridge, near York, and then became a postman, saying, "The sorting office atmosphere was like a dressing room". With his wife, June (and their five children), he bought a 150-year-old stone cottage with 10 acres of farmland on Sanday in the Orkney Islands, and also worked as a postman. On 24 December 2009, he suffered a heart attack, from which he recovered.
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