Bournemouth goalkeeper Neil Moss has been forced to retire from professional football at the age of 33.

The former Southampton stopper has called time on his career after failing to recover from a wrist injury.

He suffered a fractured scaphoid in his right wrist in the warm-up before the game with Cheltenham in January but despite a lengthy spell in plaster, the break is yet to heal, leaving him with no option but to retire.

Moss told the Bournemouth Echo: "At the moment, it's so raw and I'm feeling sorry for myself, but I've got no regrets. I've had a decent career but I just wish I could've gone on a few more years.

"I felt my best years would've been in front of me. I still feel fit and strong and I certainly felt I could've had a good season in League Two. It's been up and down over my 17 years in the game. My best times certainly came at Bournemouth.

"Sometimes when you retire, you think you can go out there and play semi-professional or do coaching. But I know, in no uncertain terms, that it would be foolish to do any sort of goalkeeping. To be told you can't do the thing you have loved doing for all these years was a double blow and probably as hard to take as telling the manager I couldn't play for Bournemouth any more."