Currently making headlines with his goalscoring exploits in the National League, Maidenhead United forward Dave Tarpey netted four times at AFC Fylde last Tuesday to make it seven in three matches on his step up to the top level of Non-League football.
Although many clubs and players in the National League are now full-time, 28-year-old Tarpey and his Maidenhead colleagues combine playing with their day jobs and the stability of a regular income was one of the factors in the player turning down the chance to join Coventry City in the summer.
Interviewed in the Non-League Paper this week, Tarpey spoke at length about the offer he received from the Sky Blues ahead of the new season, family life and financial factors meaning he eventually said no to Mark Robins.
‘It was one of those things, I had to turn it down and only time will tell if that was the right thing to do,’ he said.
‘I know Coventry are a big club so I had to really think long and hard about it. In the end it just couldn`t work, however hard I tried to make things come together.’
In other City news, Adi Viveash has been named as the club’s acting assistant manager as Steve Taylor recovers from illness.
47-year-old Viveash, formerly part of the highly successful development squad and youth team set-up at Chelsea, was a playing colleague of Mark Robins at Walsall.
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