Features

The Big Interview: Richard Pacquette – I’m ready for my next step

If there’s one thing that much-travelled striker Richard Pacquette has learned over the last quarter of a century playing football at various levels, it’s the importance of team spirit.

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
15 June 2025

A MOMENT TO SAVOUR: Richard Pacquette wheels away after famously scoring for Havant & Waterlooville at Anfield PICTURE: Alamy

By John Lyons

If there’s one thing that much-travelled striker Richard Pacquette has learned over the last quarter of a century playing football at various levels, it’s the importance of team spirit.
It’s what he will now be trying to generate at Harefield United having been appointed player-manager of his old club last weekend.
From his early days as a pro at QPR to last season as player-assistant boss of Amersham Town – with plenty of stops in between and that memorable goal at Anfield – Pacquette has seen it all in his incredible career.
The 42-year-old has played for a host of managers...

Continue reading...

Access all our premium content from as little as 14p per day!

Already a subscriber to our website? Login

Read our latest news on any of these social networks!

Tackle the News

- Sign Up for our weekly Non-League Newsletter

Your subscription could not be saved. Please try again.

Your subscription has been successful.

More in Features

The Big Interview: Chris Agutter – Sutton United boss has found the right path

Chris Agutter quit a well-paid mechanical engineering job to pursue his dream of becoming a full-time football manager.
Don’t give the morons power

FANS’ FORUM I READ your report titled ‘Halted! Female official abused’ (NLP November 16) with my head in my hands. You explain how Coventry Sphinx match with AFC Rushden & Diamonds was abandoned “due to a comment of a sexist nature that was allegedly directed toward the female match official”....
Which NLF players have the biggest social media followings? Andy Carroll, Wilfried Zaha, Robbie Savage and more

The Non League football scene is now littered with former Premier League players plying their trade in various roles across the pyramid.
The Big Interview: Hungerford Town boss Danny Robinson – I’ve plenty more left in the tank!

Danny Robinson still remembers his first game as a Non-League football manager.