Huckerby hangs up boots

Darren Huckerby, the former Coventry, Manchester City and Norwich forward, is hanging up his boots at the age of 33 after undergoing hip surgery.

Huckerby is under contract with the San Jose Earthquakes until the end of the Major League Soccer season but he does not think he will play again following the operation on his right hip.

Huckerby told the Eastern Daily Press: “I’ve got to give it a chance to see how it is but I’m 99 percent sure that I am done.

“I look at where I started at the bottom of the third division (with first club Lincoln) and I have done everything that I have wanted to do in the game.”

Huckerby’s career also featured spells at Leeds and Newcastle.