Garry Eyes Return To Game He Loves

“IT’S the same satisfaction: selling a motor or winning a game of football. Because you’re winning.”

- David Richardson

Non-League legend Garry Hill is sitting in his living room having just returned from a car auction in Shepshed, Leicestershire. He was on the road at 5am for the 280-mile round trip from his Essex home.

The former Woking boss is in a relaxed mood, his excited two dogs Darcy and Pebbles charge around the kitchen next door, but it’s clear the intensity and passion of one of Non-League’s most well-respected gaffers is still there.

The 58-year-old has been out of football since May when he left the Cards after over six years, with the club deciding to part ways amid a potential takeover.

For the best part of the last 25 years, January has been about wheeling and dealing in the player market but this time, on Transfer Deadline Day, Hill spent Wednesday morning looking for bargain vehicles for his van business.

Eight months out of the game and his desire to return to management is strong. There is still that winning mentality he first developed in the Chelmsford Sunday League with Priory Sports when a leg break left him watching from the side-lines, and he soon took over the managerial reigns.

Hill says: “I wasn’t the sort of person who would get out of bed on a Sunday just to turn round and go through the motions.

Determined