Little keen on Quakers return
09 Oct 2006 - 10:02:02
Brian Little says he is ready to get back into football management and would be 'chuffed to bits' if he was offered the chance of a return to Darlington.
The Quakers are searching for a new boss after David Hodgson was sacked last week and Little was immediately installed as favourite to get the job.
The former Leicester City and Aston Villa chief has been out of work since leaving Tranmere at the end of last season and is looking to return as soon as possible.
And a return to Darlington, a club he guided to successive Conference and old Division Four championship successes between 1989 and 1991, would be very appealing.
He told the Northern Echo: "I always said that if the two scenarios fell in line - me wanting to get back into football and Darlington wanting a manger - then who knows?
"This is the first time that scenario has happened. I would not be saying I wanted the job and was interested in the challenge if I wasn't.
"If something comes of it I would be chuffed to bits.
"I have had a little breather and I'm ready to go back to work. I have plenty of media work available to me, but I know I want to be a football manager. I haven't lost the desire and the enthusiasm, that's a certainty.
"I could have spoken to one or two clubs in the summer, but I didn't fancy them to be honest and I wanted to reflect on how the last year had gone for me.
"But I always said that come October I would probably be interested in coming back to the game and I'm ready now.
"I have certainly been there and done it at Darlington, so the challenge would be to do it again which is probably a bigger challenge second time round."