The new boss of Leicester City Football Club has found himself thrust into the media spotlight after three successive victories.

But being a former regional press journalist, Rob Kelly has been more used to posing the questions than answering them in recent years.

Rob entered the world of football at 16 but after suffering a back injury he was forced him to retire in 1990 after nine years in the game and decided to pursue a new career in journalism.

He joined the Express & Star’s training scheme in Tettenhall before learning his trade on the weekly Chronicle series.

From there he progressed to the evening paper, but the lure of football was too much to resist and he returned to Wolverhampton Wanderers as youth-team coach.

Rob told his former paper: “If it hadn’t been for Wolves asking me to go back I would have stayed in journalism.

“I’d just done my prof test so I’d become a fully qualified journalist.

“But this was Wolves, a smashing club with really good people and I just couldn’t refuse.

“I thought ‘I’ll give it a go and if it doesn’t work out I can go back into journalism.'”

Rob’s spell at Wolves was followed by a brief stint at Watford before he moved to Blackburn where he guided the youth team to two FA Youth Cup finals.

Now after easing Leicester’s relegation worries he said he still isn’t used to the media attention he is receiving.

Rob said: “It’s funny, even now I prefer asking questions to answering them.

“I suppose that’s just the inquisitive journalist part of me.”

Before he began playing football, Rob said he had always planned to be a journalist, so when his playing career came to a premature end, entering journalism seemed to be the logical path to take.

He said: “Obviously it was a real low point, being told by a surgeon that I was never going to play again.

“I needed a new career path and I chose the one I thought I’d always follow when I was at school.

“To be honest when I was younger I never thought I’d be good enough to play professionally, I always thought I’d go on to be a journalist.

“I’ve got nothing but good memories from my time at the Express & Star.

“And going into journalism added another string to my bow.

“The best job in the world is being a footballer and I’d gone into the game at 16.

“But when you do that you don’t really have any experience of the world and as a footballer you just get used to having people do things for you all the time.

“Working on the paper made me a more rounded person.”