I just didn't want to walk away from football without knowing what it meant to be a manager, or even wondering what it was like to be sacked.
I had some years of definite frustration. Auditioning and not working as much as I would have liked to, or working and being paid a pittance, and sort of scrounging by in New York and sleeping on a chair that folded out into a bed.
I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.

