Football manager takes job at Airport while on gardening leave after sacking

Former Swansea boss Luke Williams is now working at Bristol airport after a picture of him in a high vis jacket went viral. The 44-year-old was place on gardening leave in February this year and has now found himself work in a very different environment.

Williams has worked at Swindon and Notts County in the past and it was his work with the latter that caught the attention of those in Wales. He led Notts County to promotion from the National League via the play-offs and established them in League Two.

His brand of football earned particular plaudits and when he left Meadow Lane his side were the highest scorers in the Football League. However his stint at Swansea would last just over a year before he was shown the door.

Seven defeats in the space of nine games eventually saw the Swansea hierarchy opt for a change earlier this year and Williams was given the boot. Despite receiving a likely pay-off from the Championship outfit the 44-year-old has been keen to remain busy.

As a result he's take a job helping disabled and limited-mobility passengers around the Bristol Airport terminal. He started the gig two weeks ago.

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A photo of the ex-Swansea boss has done the rounds with Williams wearing his yellow vest uniform and a lanyard as he comes out of the lift in Bristol, which is the eighth busiest airport in the UK. The former Notts County boss has never been scared of hard work and has revealed that, in order to fund his early coaching career, he loaded lorries for BHS and drove minibuses to and from nightclubs and airports.

He previously told the Guardian when discussing his work ethic: "Sometimes I would work 20 hours off the bat, get three or four hours’ kip, back to work. In my opinion motivation in life is everything.

“The realisation in my late-teens that life is going to be a monumental struggle for me, that life was about to become very tough and the world would become very hostile for somebody with no qualifications, no contacts, working class … that desire to feed myself and look after myself kicked in.

"I realised that I was capable of tolerating almost anything, providing that I would be able to have a roof over my head and something to eat. That is how the motivation began. I don’t think I’ve really moved away from that. I still feel as insecure in that way as I ever did.”

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