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There’s one thing getting a cab to the football, but when it’s your own and you play for the team in question, it’s a rather different way to get to a game. Not only that, but Sutton United
midfielder Kenny Davis, also picks his teammates up on the way to training! Davis is currently starring in central midfield for the League Two side, which is looking for a second promotion in two years, and he’s loving life on the field, and behind the wheel. The Taxi Insurer caught up with him for a chat: “I’ve got a Mercedes six-seater and pick the lads up on the way to training at Walton Casuals. One at the Thurrock Hotel in Dartford and a couple on the way in. Harry Beauty- man, Isaac Olaofe, they love it.” Davis grew up in the East End of London and played non-league football for Grays, Braintree, and Boreham Wood before joining Sutton, where he’s enjoyed the club’s historic first ever promotion to the English Football League and now a promotion-chasing run to League One. “To see what we’ve done and the way that we’ve done it is just amazing, a dream. I honestly can’t believe it. I never thought I’d reach the Football League, but now I’m here I’m desperate to make the most of it, and that means full-time training, and making sure I’m at my best as it’s so competi- tive getting in the team with so many good players.” Davis decided to start driving a cab as a way of looking to the future after football, as something to fall back on when he fin- ished. Learning the ‘Knowledge’ took him four years, and even though he’s now playing full time, he still takes the cab out twice a week to keep himself sharp. “It’s obviously been a terrible time for cabbies during the last couple of years with the pandemic, and I’ve been lucky to be able to be earning from football. “I speak to some of the older guys, and they’ve been delivering tests for the NHS and delivering food for people who
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need it and parcels too. I think, that will always happen now which is a big change. “Personally, I always go out in the cab a couple of times a week to keep myself sharp with the Knowledge, plus I love it to be honest, and enjoy it so much.” At 33, Davis is playing some of the best football of his life and smashed in a wonderful free kick against top of the league Forest Green in February, but is looking to a future driving when his playing days finally come to an end. “To be honest I’d love to stay in football but combine the two if possible. I know many ex-players drive cabs, people such as Terry Bullivant, who played for Fulham, and Simon Bassey who’s at Portsmouth, and I suppose Spurs’ Micky Hazard is the most famous player to turn to cabbing.” “I often pick up famous people, such as the designer Kelly Hoppen, and Jimmy Carr was a lovely guy. And often foot- ballers, people such as Luke Shaw and Alvaro Moratta, but I don’t chat football, as most of the time they’re busy doing their own thing.” It’s the greatest footballing period in Sutton United’s history and Kenny Davis is thrilled to be part of it, but equally he gets as much pleasure driving his cab. Whatever happens in the coming months and the season’s climax, it promises to be a heck of a ride.
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