Former Blades and Reds star Chris Morgan heads in new direction

Happy days: Sheffield United's Chris Morgan celebrates with the Championship runners-up plate with team-mates after the match against Crystal Palace at Bramall Lane in April, 2006.

THEY say that life begins at 40, but when Chris Morgan reached that particular milestone in November he had plenty of food for thought.

After being sacked from his position as assistant manager at Chesterfield in January 2017 and leaving Port Vale just under nine months later after serving as an assistant to former Sheffield United team-mate Michael Brown, Morgan would have been forgiven for bidding good riddance to an unkind 2017.

Involved in professional football for all of his working life, the former Blades and Barnsley defender took stock before a chance conversation with his former agent at the Stellar Group set the wheels in motion for a career switch to become a football agent with the well-respected company.

Renowned as someone who led from the front on the football pitch during a rock-solid career in which he watched his team-mates’ backs and was a big dressing-room influence and authority, Morgan is now showing that same duty of care in his new role looking after his clients.

In typical Morgan fashion, his commitment is unstinting.

Morgan told The Yorkshire Post: “It was a big decision. I had been out of work since the beginning of October when we got the sack at Port Vale.

“You have a month to gather your thoughts and do all the usual things about what I would do differently next time.

“A couple of bits and bobs came up and they did not really take my fancy and that is not being disrespectful to the people who I spoke to.