Grant Holt played and score in a friendly against Torquay in 2002.
Along with Sebastian Scalise he was released soon after by caretaker manager Eamonn Dolan.

Grant Holt then played for a number of non-league and professional clubs, making nearly 100 league appearances for Nottingham Forest before signing for Shrewsbury Town in 2008 where he became top goalscorer. A year later, he signed for Norwich where he won the Norwich City Player of the Year award in three consecutive seasons, helping Norwich to back-to-back promotions, and became the sixth highest goalscorer in their history.

He played over 600 games scoring more than 200 times in a playing career that ended at Barrow in 2018.
He then moved to coach in the Academy at Norwich.