'Adventure' stopped Owen from goin'

27 July 2009 10:10
The Clarets boss was a candidate to succeed Gordon Strachan at Parkhead before former West Brom chief Tony Mowbray was appointed. Coyle admits he was tempted by a move to Celtic, the club he supports, but the Paisley-born 43-year-old did not want to turn his back on Burnley. The Turf Moor outfit are preparing for the Premier League after winning the Championship play-offs and the prospect of the English top flight was sufficient to turn down the Bhoys. "I'm not going to pretend I didn't think about it," he said in the Daily Record. "I'm a Celtic fan. "It's where I am from, a big part of who I am and, of course, there's the chance of Champions League football. "But then I looked at what we had built at Burnley, I thought of players I'd persuaded to be a part of this and, in the end, I knew I had to stay and carry on this incredible adventure."

Source: Team_Talk