He has also played in Wales for Barry Town, in the United States with New Orleans Shell Shockers and for non-league side Radcliffe Borough.

[4] Despite being popular with the Manchester City supporters he was sold by then manager Howard Kendall to West Ham United in December 1989.

Bishop joined in the same week as Trevor Morley and Colin Foster, as manager Lou Macari continued to rebuild the West Ham squad.

Bishop was an integral player in the team which earned promotion to the Premier League but only played ten times for the club in the top flight as they fought an ultimately unsuccessful battle against relegation.

Bishop claims that false accusations that he was gay and in a relationship with friend and teammate Trevor Morley was the reason behind him not being called up to the England team.

Bishop said "Whether people think I was good enough or not, I wasn't going to displace Gazza (Paul Gascoigne), But other players did get caps and jumped ahead of me in the queue.