 He subsequently spent four seasons in non-league football, first with Bedford Town F.C., with whom he won a Southern League Championship medal in the 1958-59 season, then with Hastings United and Romford.He left the game in 1962.After his retirement he ran a newsagents shop close to White Hart Lane in Northumberland Park and later became the landlord at the "Haunch of Venison" public house in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire.