Blackpool boss Ian Evatt has said his break away from football has been the best thing that could have happened to his career.<\/p>\n
The 43-year-old has returned to the club where he spent almost seven years as a player, taking charge of the Seasiders following the departure of previous boss Steve Bruce.<\/p>\n
Evatt had been without a club since leaving Bolton in January, having spent four and a half years with Wanderers.<\/p>\n
“I went 27 years with with no break, going from playing straight into coaching,” he told BBC Radio Lancashire.<\/p>\n
“At the time you don’t feel like you need it but in hindsight it was probably the best thing that could have happened to me.<\/p>\n
“It’s hard to improve yourself when you’re in a role and it’s 24-7. It takes up all your time and you’re almost in a bubble where you’re just thinking about the next game and the next result.”<\/p>\n
Evatt has taken over a Blackpool side which is bottom of the third tier with nine points from 13 matches.<\/p>\n
He left Bolton after a poor first half to the 2024-25 League One campaign, having steered them to the play-off final at Wembley the previous season.<\/p>\n
“This time and period of reflection has given me that opportunity to understand what did go well. But there’s also stuff that’s gone wrong,” Evatt added.<\/p>\n
“It has given me the time to think about how I’ve changed and evolved and how to move forwards and do things a little bit better.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blackpool boss Ian Evatt has said his break away from football has been the best thing that could…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-232736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}