When the Covid-19 pandemic first hit, Craig Mackail-Smith was still playing professional football having spent the majority of the cut-short 2019/20 season on loan at Stevenage from Wycombe Wanderers.
The forward spent six months of the campaign at The Boro, scoring one goal in 23 matches before returning to his parent club. However, after his release from the Championship-bound Chairboys that summer, Mackail-Smith was looking for a new challenge as he began to plan for his future outside of the full-time game.
A couple of months later, Mackail-Smith received a call from non-league Bedford Town - an opportunity to go and help spearhead the Eagles' promotion push. Although the 38-year-old had talks with other clubs, he felt moving down to the eighth tier of English football with Bedford was the right decision at that stage of his career.
