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:
“You can’t be a Real Country unless you have A BEER and an airline—it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER.”
—Frank Zappa (1940–1993)
“... in the minds of search committees there is the lingering question: Can she manage the football coach?”
—Donna E. Shalala (b. 1941)