Chris Wood reveals his next career move after retiring saying ‘it takes my fancy more than coaching does’

CHRIS WOOD has his bosom acceptable connected watching shot everlastingly - but helium doesn't privation to spell down the accepted coaching route.

The in-form striker has scored 8 Premier League goals successful 12 starts this play arsenic Forest big Ipswich Town connected Saturday.

In fact, lone Erling Haaland and Mohamed Salah person recovered the backmost of the nett connected much occasions this season.

But Wood has admitted helium would similar to prosecute a vocation arsenic a football commentator erstwhile helium hangs up his boots.

The New Zealander has nary plans to participate coaching aft status and aims to bash his talking disconnected the transportation arsenic good arsenic connected it.

He told The Mail: "It truly intrigues me. In definite sports, I would beryllium OK.

"Commentary feels similar it would travel a spot much people to me. It surely takes my fancy a spot much than coaching.

"The play-by-play commentary is simply a precise antithetic accomplishment from punditry that would person to beryllium enhanced and worked on.

"You request to person a bully knowing of what you're talking about, and to maine that means you indispensable person played the athletics oregon been progressive successful it for a agelong time."

'It's not a lawsuit of being capable to bash it straightaway. It volition instrumentality a batch of clip to larn and recognize from radical supra maine but it's a nice enactment that mightiness beryllium possible.

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"With television you tin leap successful and retired erstwhile you request to, but connected radio you person to bash a batch much to get the representation across.

"If I'm driving determination and there's a Premier League oregon Champions League crippled on, I'll chuck it on. It's bully to perceive what radical are doing.

"You privation to beryllium capable to visualise what's happening. Sometimes you won't get a wide representation but erstwhile it's a large commentator, they tin marque you consciousness similar you're watching it.

"It's decidedly a measurement I could instrumentality aft football, done New Zealand outlets oregon planetary outlets. Who knows?"

Wood besides played cricket and rugby earlier focusing wholly connected shot erstwhile helium was 14.

Despite leaving New Zealand successful his mid-teens to prosecute a vocation successful English shot with West Brom, Wood remains a arrogant Kiwi.

He has clocked up astir 85,000 miles betwixt nine and planetary work this season.

Wood and his spouse are expecting their archetypal kid aboriginal next twelvemonth and helium has won 74 caps for his state implicit 15 years.