Manager's son Toby McKimm, 17, keeps clean sheet on Tonbridge Angels debut

Manager’s son Toby McKimm was named man-of-the-match on his debut as Tonbridge beat Maidstone in the Kent Senior Cup.

Goalkeeper McKimm, 17, marked his first appearance with a clean sheet in a 1-0 victory that sent Angels through to round three on Tuesday night.

He made a couple of fine saves in an assured performance, having got the nod to play from dad Steve on the morning of the game.

“He’d just gone to work and he called me and said, ‘Toby, you’re starting tonight,’” said the teenager, who was on Fulham’s books as a kid. “I was preparing for it all day.

“It was different, very different, playing for my dad.

“I’ve gone from playing in front of him, just as a normal dad on a Sunday, to him being my manager.

“As soon as we walk through that gate he goes from dad to gaffer, but it’s enjoyable.

“We talk about football a lot. On the way here, on the way home, everything’s football. It’s good.

“I get a bit of stick, ‘Aww, Daddy the manager’, but at the same time the players are good.

"They’re like, ‘You’re one of us now, we don’t care if he’s your dad, do what he says but do what we say as well.’”

There was no special treatment when the Angels boss wanted to make a point to his goalkeeper at half-time.

For McKimm junior, it was a case of taking his dad’s comments on the chin.

He said: “It was weird because he was talking to everyone else and then he came to me and said, ‘Your first two kicks were good and then you tried that fancy one and it didn’t come off.’

“At first it feels a bit personal but then you realise that here he is just your manager, you’ve got to take constructive criticism and get on with it.”

It remains to be seen how long McKimm, who became a goalkeeper because “I liked diving around on mud”, will be at