In an interview with the Belfast Telegraph on 6th October 2009, former Northern Irish international Steve Lomas revealed that he had a brief spell working for Norwich City with their youth team:

"“The move to Gillingham never really worked out,” he said. “A new manager came in and then I was released. I lost a bit of heart and at the same time I had a job working with the youth team at Norwich City, which unfortunately fell through because of financial problems at the club after only a couple of months. In hindsight — which is always 20-20 vision — I would have continued trying to play. I believe I could have played at some level, but you make choices and the choice I made was to go into coaching and management and Norwich City are a good club. That ended about a year ago and I hadn’t had a pre-season and clubs look at that when you get to my age.”

Lomas, a midfielder, first made his name with Manchester City in the 1990s but then moved to West Ham United, where he made 227 competitive appearances and became club captain. On 31st August 2005, he was released on a free transfer and joined Queens Park Rangers. He left QPR in May 2007, and joined Gillingham on 31st July 2007. On his debut for Gillingham he was sent off in the first match of the 2007–08 season against Cheltenham Town. He was released by Gillingham on 31st January 2008.

On 23 March 2009, he was appointed as player manager of St Neots Town

Steve won 45 caps for Northern Ireland, scoring twice.