Charlie Austin has made a career out of banging in goals across nearly every level of English football but he wants out of the limelight.
On Wednesday, Austin signed for Southern League Premier Division side AFC Totton in the seventh tier of English football.
It means he will face two of his former sides in Hungerford Town and Poole Town, but why leave league football after a season where he played every game for Swindon in League Two?
A lot of is family-orientated but plenty was down to club politics and growing tired of off-pitch problems, speaking exclusively to talkSPORT.
He said on Breakfast: “Do you know what I think it comes down to? The family time. I wanted to spend more time with the family.
“My son is now coming eight and he’s really into the football and I coach his team, do his training.
“I don’t want to miss out on that, but when I went to Brisbane, I enjoyed that.
“But when I came back, the last 18 months since I’ve come back, it has felt like football for me has kind of changed, the mindset.
“Respectfully I was playing for Swindon in League Two and the problems that arose around the football club I wasn’t really used to.
“The people there were very different to the people I was used to, playing at other clubs and I was just thinking to myself, ‘I don’t want this stress’.
“I don’t need this agg, I don’t need the politics that goes on in these football clubs, arguing over irrelevant things, really.
“For me, I’d rather just play part-time, enjoy time with a family but join a football club that’s trying to have a go, understand where they are, but see it for what it is.”
Austin started his career out battling it in non-league, having to work as a bricklayer when he wasn’t playing football.
After smashing in 48 goals in one season at Poole Town, Swindon took a chance on the striker and found that they had discovered a goal machine as he netted 31 times in 54 appearances for them.
Burnley, who were in the Championship at the time, signed Austin in 2010 where his goalscoring rate did not slow down, going on to appear in the Premier League for QPR, Southampton and West Brom.
Now aged 35 and after time in Australia with Brisbane Roar and a second stint at Swindon coming to an end this summer, Austin has decided to call time on his career in the big time and return to his non-league roots.
It will certainly be interesting watching former Premier League striker Austin lining up against plumbers and mechanics in non-league, who might feel AFC Totton have something of an unfair advantage.
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