As my career came to an end I did look at moving into football coaching at one point, but then I was approached by a good friend who encouraged me to get involved in the accountancy teaching profession. I jumped at the chance! Based on his experience and reputation within the profession it seemed too good an opportunity – even though I don’t have an accountancy background.

I’m really enjoying being involved in helping run the business; Richard is a great lecturer and a very intelligent guy and it’s something that I’ve been able to get stuck into. It seems to be taking up so much of my time at the moment that I can’t really get involved with much of the coaching side of football unfortunately, although I am enjoying the challenge as this is something completely new.

We set up the business in Malta just over a year ago and it has been very successful, taking over 70% of the market over there. We have just started lecturing in Belfast and so far have had a great response, and now we are looking to expand even more. We are looking at setting up ACCA and CIMA centres all over England and Scotland in the next eighteen months to two years, so watch this space!

In the short term, over the next few weeks the main focus is really getting the courses up and running in Belfast and preparing for the next session in January 2010. The awareness is out there now and people understand who we are and what we offer, so it’s just a case of consolidating our work there. Then it’s on to sorting out in Edinburgh,Dublin and Chelmsford.