Moving
to Hayden Road is Chris Willmott, a former team-mate of Burgess` at Oxford
United.
The
now 44-year-old works at Bedford Modern School as a football coach.
He
began his career at Luton Town, before a move to Wimbledon in 1999 alongside
team-mate Kelvin Davis due to the Hatters financial difficulties at the time.
He
returned to Luton on loan in 2002/03 and was all set to return on a Bosman
transfer in the summer of 2003 as well as fellow loanee Sammy Igoe.
However,
the take-over and subsequent dismissal of the Luton management team saw Willmott
join Northampton Town instead.
In
the summer of 2005, he joined Oxford United and, although he missed the
majority of the 2007/08 season through a knee injury, he still went on to make just
over 100 appearances for the U’s.
His
next destination was Brackley Town where he spent two seasons regularly hailed
as one of the best centre-backs in the Southern League and during the 2011/12
season Mike Ford pulled off a big coup raiding Brackley to bring Willmott to
Oxford City
He
went on to make around 106 appearances in a City shirt, scoring 10 goals,
including the solitary goal in the Southern League play-off semi-final against
Cambridge City and two pivotal moments in the 2013/14 campaign - a headed
winner against Conference South champions Eastleigh in the FA Cup and a vitally
important late equaliser at Stalybridge Celtic.
He
retired from playing at the end of the 2013/14 season. |