I just need to be given a chance somewhere, says Billy Walton

BILLY WALTON says he is ready to become a first team manager and bring his eye-pleasing brand of carpet football to your club.

The 48-year-old, who lives in New Eltham, was Steve Firkins’ assistant at Kent League Fisher last season and the side played free-flowing “carpet football” which helped the club finish in their highest position in three seasons.

However, he left the Champion Hill based club in the summer and joined League rivals VCD Athletic, but he opted to leave within six weeks after he decided it wasn’t for him, as it appeared he was third in line behind manager Ricky Bennett and assistant manager Andy Silk.

“It was a nice club, a good club with nice people there and stuff, but it just wasn’t for me unfortunately,” said Walton.
 
“I decided to leave at an early stage to give them a chance to get someone else or carry on themselves.”

Bermondsey-born Walton wants to be number one – at the highest level.

He said: “I think I’ve done enough in my career with being assistants and coaches and things. I think I’ve got enough knowledge to be a number one and make my own decisions.

“I think I could get a very good coaching staff to come with me.  Most probably be second to none in that league and try to go to a club that wants to go forward and win things.”

But Walton admitted chairmen may not want his pleasing style of football – but to play long-ball football - to get results.

He said: “I don’t think there will be a club out there that would be prepared to give me a job in the sense of would they be prepared for me to play an exciting, dangerous style of football, which you’ve witnessed yourself.

“That’s what I will do. I will play a bit dangerous, a bit risky at times but I think I can get the right players who are confident on the ball and play the way we’ll play.  We’ll get the strikers to finish off the chances that we’ll create.  I think we’ll be more than successful.

“I’d like to go as far as I can to be honest.  I’ve read your report on the lad (20-year-old Sam Macneil) at Kent Football United who wants to be a professional, so good luck to the lad.

“I think I’m a bit old for that, but I’d like to get up as high like Jenko (Ian Jenkins) and Tommy Warrilow (who manage Cray Wanderers and Tonbridge Angels) that sort of thing.

“I’ve just got to be given a chance somewhere.”

Walton added: “I don’t think it’s hard to win the Kent League in a sense that if you’ve got money you’ve got a great chance of winning it.

“It’s not hard to work out you don’t have to be a good manger to win the Kent League – you just need to have a few quid!”