Blackpool face Sheffield Wednesday at Bloomfield Road in the third round of the EFL Cup this week.
Seasiders boss Steve Bruce knows the Owls well having managed the club back in 2019.
The 63-year-old didn't spend too long at Hillsborough, after departing the South Yorkshire outfit to join Newcastle United after a number of months in charge.
Despite things not working out at St James' Park, Bruce says he's got no regrets.
Seasiders boss Steve Bruce knows the Owls well having managed the club back in 2019.
The 63-year-old didn't spend too long at Hillsborough, after departing the South Yorkshire outfit to join Newcastle United after a number of months in charge.
Despite things not working out at St James' Park, Bruce says he's got no regrets.
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00:00Talking about your time with Sheffield Wednesday, is there any regret about the way you departed
00:11there or even in hindsight was it still too good to turn down going to Newcastle?
00:17I simply had to take the opportunity to manage Newcastle and from there, look, most people
00:24are going to save me time there. It was this, that and the other. I had to take the opportunity.
00:33It wasn't easy at times, that's for sure, but I'm a Newcastle lad who's managed Newcastle
00:38so not many can say that and it was difficult and I understand that I had to make an awful
00:44decision but I simply couldn't, I couldn't refuse.
00:49If you could relive that situation, would the decision be the same from you?
00:54Yeah, I think you make decisions in your life and you stay with them. Some you make the
00:59right ones and some you might not make them at all but I simply had to take the opportunity
01:05to manage Newcastle and I pleased to have done it.
01:08Obviously, it was only for a number of months but the fact that you've spoken so fondly
01:13about them, does that show the size of the club?
01:16They've got a wonderful support and a fiercely loyal support. I'll never forget the day at
01:22Wembley when I was at Hull and we beat them in the play-off final and looking round at
01:26the masses of Sheffield Wednesday fans, they're a huge big club with a huge, huge fan base.
01:32As I said, fiercely loyal, big history, big tradition, a big, big football club at the end of the day.