David Seaman

Well, it wasn't children because I'd had children all the way through because I've got 40-year-olds.

So by 22, 23, I'd got two kids.

So I'd spent a lot of my time with my football career along with raising children and raising a family.

It was strange not having everything done for you by the club.

When you're going abroad and stuff, you know, like I'd go away with the family and I'd be like, oh yeah, but we just walk through.

Like, no, you've got to go through that bit there and then that bit there.

Or just little things.

But no, it wasn't massively different, you know.

I think the best thing for me was that I was ready to retire.

Yeah.

You know, so I was looking forward to it.

You know, I was looking forward to having more time to go fishing and do my golf, you know, play a bit of golf and then do my charity work and everything.

And it's weird, you know, and even like doing the coaching.

So the coaching side of it came a little bit later on.

And the reason was, is that I started to do my badges.

And back then when I was doing it, I got told while I was on the course that I had to do my outfield coaching badge before I could do my goalkeeping badge.

And that like me being stub in the ocean and like just rub me up this total, I was like, I'm not doing it.

And I just left it.

And then Ray Clemens set up this thing where you could get a goalkeeping diploma, which enabled ex-goalkeepers that were at clubs to carry on coaching because they got this qualification.

Nothing to do with how good they were.