A defender, he played for Blackburn Rovers and Macclesfield Town in the Football League and Bangor City.
After his playing career ended, he worked as a football talent scout .
He started at Tottenham Hotspur in the mid-2000s as a part-time European scout, and played a part in the signings of Luka Modrić and Benoît Assou-Ekotto.
He moved to Liverpool in 2010 to join Damien Comolli who was once his superior as the director of football at Tottenham.
[1] He then became head of European scouting for Queens Park Rangers, and in 2016 joint director of recruitment at Derby County.