Imagine accepting a job offer on the other side of the world without telling your wife.

That was the situation Jamie Day found himself in when the Bangladesh Football Federation asked him to become the head coach of their national team a year ago.

Day, the former Welling and Ebbsfleet boss, was keen straight away but, of course, it was not as straightforward as that.

He said: "My friend is an agent in Australia and he messaged me to say 'the Bangladesh national job is coming up, would you be interested?'

"I said ‘yeah, no worries, I’m happy to do it’ but I hadn’t spoken to the family or anything.

"Out of the blue, they said ‘can you go to London and meet the president?’ so we had a chat for about an hour or so and they offered me the job.

"I hadn’t told my wife that this was maybe going to happen but she was fantastic with it and we both felt it was a good opportunity for me to work abroad, which I wanted to do, with a national team.

"To manage a national team doesn’t happen to managers who have managed in non-league and the lower leagues in England. I’m glad I took that risk to go out there and manage.

"But it’s difficult. I’ve got four children and I spend six to eight weeks, sometimes longer, in Bangladesh without seeing them so it’s tough on me and it’s more tough on my wife and children.

"She has to look after them and maintain making sure they’re all right and the house and looking after everything. She’s been fantastic on that side of it but it does take its toll.

"When there’s things on, it’s a fantastic job, when you’re involved in tournaments and playing against international managers. They’re the good points you have to keep you going while you have the lows out there.

"The rest of it is sitting in a hotel, planning what we’re going to do, which can get a bit boring. That’s the difficult times, when you’re sitting in a hotel and you’ve not got much to do.

Listen to the full interview with Jamie Day on the KM Football Podcast