Old Robins Trio Are Doing A Kit of Alright

THREE of my old Bracknell Town team-mates are climbing up the coaching ladder, as I attempt to step on the first rung.

You’ll read elsewhere in today’s paper about my old centre-half partners Jon Underwood and Neil Baker, who have ended their two-and-a-half year spell at Godalming Town to become joint managers at Slough.

Then there is our old manager Alan Taylor’s son, midfield playmaker Gavin, who is making his way as coach of Fulham’s  Under-18s alongside England Under-21 assistant Steve Wigley.

I’m due to start my FA Level 2 coaching course next month, so asked Gav for any training kit the Premier League club might be throwing out.

When I called into the Cottagers’ Motspur Park training ground to collect it, he texted to say the kit man would meet me in reception. And to my amazement, he really did mean ‘Kit’ man.

Former Portsmouth and Manchester City defender Kit Symons, no less, walked in with arms full of gear to give me.

Symons is Fulham’s Under-21 manager and assistant to Chris Coleman with the Welsh national team.

If people of that calibre are mucking in and leading with a Non-League work ethic, I can see why Gav is fitting in and  progressing so well.