Education
Gay graduated through the youth, academy and reserve sides at Norwich City but made no appearances in the first team and joined Football League Two club Southend United on a free transfer in 2001.
Gay graduated through the youth, academy and reserve sides at Norwich City but made no appearances in the first team and joined Football League Two club Southend United on a free transfer in 2001.
He made eleven appearances in Football League Two for Southend United between 2001 and 2003. He made eleven league appearances for Southend in two seasons and was put on standby for the Welsh Under 21 squad for two Union of European Football Associations championship qualifiers against Azerbaijan and Serbia and Montenegro in March and April 2003, before being allowed to leave Southend at the end of the 2002-2003 season. He then dropped into non-league football and has played for Hornchurch, Braintree Town, Bishops Stortford and Heybridge Swifts.
Gay had a trial with Leeds United, playing in a pre-season friendly in July 2007, before joining current club Chelmsford City.
He was released by Chelmsford City at the end of the 2008-2009 season, after two seasons at the club He signed for Needham Market, then joined A.F.C. Sudbury in July 2011.
Gay then joined Leiston in October 2013, before signing for Southern Premier Division side Street Neots Town in June 2015.He then left System Technologies Neots to rejoin Needham Market in the Ryman Premier.