Barnsley FC manager Neill Collins - his first press conference - video Dailymotion

New Barnsley FC manager Neill Collins talks to the media in his first press conference since taking over as manager at Oakwell

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00:00 First of all, World Win time, how have the last couple of weeks been for you as the manager

00:11 of Valdez Football Club?

00:13 World wins, I think the expression, quite surreal when we were flying here, John said

00:22 to me, it's strange, we were in Las Vegas taking a game and then we were flying to Valdez to

00:29 take a new job. It wasn't something I necessarily expected but once it moved quick I knew that

00:35 it was the right decision for me and my family and just the next step in my career and just

00:42 a great opportunity.

00:43 I was going to ask about that, so it hadn't really been a plan to come back to football

00:49 in England until the offer came?

00:51 I think I'm always ambitious about improving and I think I've been able to do that for

00:59 the last five years at Tampa but then you're getting to a point where again the promotion

01:05 part of it does restrict you and while I still felt that there was lots to achieve, it was

01:11 a fantastic job, I think I did start thinking that it would be great to get a different

01:17 challenge but finding the right one is really difficult and being considered the right person

01:25 as well can be difficult. So after a couple of conversations I was very excited and as

01:31 I say it moved really quickly but I think that was for the best for everyone. I'm just

01:37 so, so, so delighted to be here and I think the fact that it's back in Yorkshire as well

01:42 was a key part of that decision and the kind of type of football club it was as well was

01:47 a key part of that decision.

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