He returned to non-League football with Merthyr Tydfil and Bath City in 1985 before rejoining Newport for a £15,000 fee in January 1988.
He featured in the Premier League, though after two successive relegations, he again earned a place on the Second Division's PFA Team of the Year in 1995–96.
He then spent two seasons with Reading, as well as a loan spell at Wycombe Wanderers, before entering management with Bath City in 1998.
However, he left Stamford Bridge without making a first-team appearance for the "Blues" and moved onto a brief spell with Newport County under manager Len Ashurst, rejecting interest from his hometown side Cardiff City after watching Newport draw 2–2 with German side Carl Zeiss Jena in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.
[10] Bodin left Newport for Second Division side Swindon Town in March 1988 for a fee of £30,000 after Eastick was ordered to sell players in an attempt to raise funds.
When King left for Sheffield Wednesday in November the following year, Bodin became the club's first-choice left-back.
[2] He was almost ever-present under Osvaldo Ardiles in the 1989–90 campaign as Swindon reached the play-off final at Wembley, where they beat Sunderland 1–0.
[3][13] He failed to break into the "Eagles" first-team as Palace reached third in the league in the 1990–91 campaign, though he was still named on the Second Division PFA Team of the Year for his time at Swindon.
Bodin returned to the County Ground just ten months after he had left - Glenn Hoddle paying a fee of £225,000 on 10 January 1992.
[2] He also installed Bodin as the club's penalty taker - moves which were to come to fruition the following season, when he scored a total of twelve goals from his new position.
[2] Five of these goals came from the penalty spot - the last of which gave Swindon the lead in the dying minutes of the 1993 play-off final win over Leicester City.
[24] Following the arrival of Paolo Di Canio, Bodin rebuffed advances from Torquay United to become assistant manager under good friend Martin Ling, and opted to sign a new long-term deal with Swindon Town following the revelations he had been working without a contract for three and a half years.
[27] He rejected the chance to follow Page to Northampton Town in May 2016, and resigned his post at Vale Park for "personal reasons".