Former EFL boss who now works in an AIRPORT set for return to management

Peterborough United are in advanced talks to appoint Luke Williams as their new manager with the former Swansea City boss recently spotted working at Bristol Airport

Former Swansea boss Luke Williams could be handed a route back into management with Peterborough having worked at Bristol Airport following his most recent sacking.

Williams has been out of work since he was axed by the Welsh side in February. He initially made his name at Notts County, guiding them to promotion via the National League play-offs and later consolidating them in League Two, playing an attractive brand of football along the way.

Peterborough could now take a punt on the 44-year-old as they look to save their season. The Posh are bottom of League One and facing the prospect of dropping down into the fourth tier for the first time since 2008.

The hierarchy at London Road have chosen to axe Darren Ferguson, son of Sir Alex, after a poor start to the season that has seen Peterborough win just three of their 13 games. Now advanced talks have been held to appoint Williams as their new boss, according to talkSPORT.

A serious Injury at the age of 19 meant that Williams was denied a playing career. He pivoted into coaching and became a manager for the first time in 2015 with Swindon after taking an assistant manager role there two years earlier.

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The former Swansea boss embarked on an unusual route following his dismissal and, whilst being on gardening leave, took on a job outside of football and begun working in the aviation industry. A picture of him working in a high vis jacket at an airport went viral. Not long after leaving the dugout and Williams took a job helping disabled and limited-mobility passengers around the Bristol Airport terminal.

A photo of him wearing his yellow vest uniform and a lanyard was seen across social media. 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.”

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