Former Championship star, 38, now a train driver in ‘new career to last the rest of my life’

A erstwhile Brighton prima has swapped the transportation for the bid tracks.

Jake Robinson made 144 appearances for the Seagulls aft coming done the club's academy.

He became Brighton's youngest-ever goalscorer erstwhile helium scored against Reading connected the opening time of the 2004-05 Championship play aged conscionable 16.

It is simply a grounds helium inactive holds to this time and 1 helium is precise arrogant of.

Robinson, 38, scored 20 goals for his boyhood nine including a hat-trick successful conscionable his 2nd FA Cup quality against Northwich Victoria.

He aboriginal joined Shrewsbury and played for Torquay and Northampton successful the EFL earlier spending 10 years successful non-league, finishing his vocation astatine Worthing astatine the extremity of past season.

After hanging up his boots Robinson is present a trainee bid driver, having been tipped for a occupation astatine bid institution Southern by his Dad, who saw a occupation advert spell up portion moving astatine Brighton station.

Robinson erstwhile dreamed of playing for England and earning capable to discontinue on, and though his vocation did not cookware retired arsenic hoped helium is inactive arrogant of what helium has accomplished.

He told BBC Radio Sussex: "The money ne'er rather went to the level it needed to if that was to beryllium my extremity [to retire].

"I'm precise arrogant of my career, I wouldn't alteration it for the world. All I ever wanted to bash was beryllium a nonrecreational footballer, I'm fortunate I lived retired that dream.

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"Scored successful each league from the Championship down to County One truthful that is simply a nice grounds I have."

Now Robinson volition beryllium liable for transporting fans to and from Brighton's Amex, thing helium is anxious to bash contempt the challenges of dealing with thousands of fans connected bid platforms.

Asked astir taking fans to Brighton, helium said: "I judge that is rather likely. Being based successful Brighton that is 1 of my halfway routes.

"It would beryllium similar the communicative being implicit for me. From grooming determination arsenic a kid to present my caller vocation that volition hopefully past the remainder of my beingness is taking radical there, dropping them disconnected and picking them up again. So astir similar afloat circle."