I made some bad choices after leaving Terriers

assets frozen, I had no finances.

“I had to cut the wage bill massively, but still make the team competitive. I kept them in the Championship on a fifth of the budget and when we unsurprisingly struggled at the start of the next season, I was let go.”

Clark believes his spell at St Andrew’s coupled with his swift return to management with struggling Blackpool has hampered his career ever since. “Taking the Blackpool job was poor judgement on my part,” admits Clark. “I was still hurting from the Birmingham decision and wanted to prove people wrong when I should have given myself a bit of a break. “It wasn’t a nice place. The pitch was a potato field, there were demonstrations by the fans. I was only there for six months, but it killed a lot of things for me in regards to getting jobs. “It’s put a few people off me. If I’d kept away from Blackpool and Birmingham, who knows what my

If I’d kept away from Blackpool and Birmingham who knows what my next job might have been?

next job might have been?”

Clark has since had spells with Scottish Premiership side Kilmarnock before taking charge of League One outfit Bury in February 2017.

After just eight months in charge of the Shakers, Clark was sacked on October 30th 2017 with the side second from bottom in the table.

Clark hasn’t returned to the dugout since then but is itching to do so – if the right job came along.

“I’m not frightened of working abroad and if the right opportunity came along, I’d seriously think about it,” he says.

“In the meantime, I go to a lot of games at various different levels. I’m covering all the bases so if I do go into another job, I know who’s who and what’s what.”