The 33-year-old announced he had `retired` from playing after ending the 2021/22 season in the Vanarama National League with Torquay United, having made 29 appearances and scored 3 goals for the Gulls.
An FA qualified coach director and lead coach at `Goalman Football`, he wanted to concentrate on his business, although Spartan South Midlands League Division One side ON Chenecks persuaded him out of retirement last season.
Holman spent most of his early career with Long Buckby, scoring 30 in 35 matches and then 26 goals in 37 appearances across two spells.
He also spent some of his youth career with ON Chenecks and Moulton Magpies, and had a brief spell with Oxford City.
He signed for Histon in July 2011 and he netted 27 goals in his first season in the Conference North.
He then moved to Braintree in the Conference Premier before signing for then-League One outfit Colchester United in July 2014, but that didn’t work out.
Loans back to the Conference with Wrexham, Aldershot Town and Dover Athletic were short-lived and unsuccessful, but 14 goals in 26 matches for Woking led to a move to Cheltenham Town that January.
He scored 16 goals in 18 games for the Robins and they went up.
Holman’s first season in the League with Cheltenham saw him play 28 times and score twice.
Before the start of that season, he broke his toe in a training collision with Aaron Downes. It’s clear that that affected him, and subsequent loans out to Boreham Wood, Leyton Orient and Aldershot didn’t work out.
Afterwards, he returned to his old stomping ground of Northamptonshire with Kettering and Brackley Town before moving to the Devon coast.
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