Scott Brown has revealed he turned down a job in the Premiership during his time at Ayr United.
The Celtic legend recently parted company with the Championship side after two years in charge. After just falling short in the promotion play-offs last season, they looked set for another shot at it before a collapse in form left the relegation play-off as a possibility.
It was Brown's second job in management, along with assistant Steven Whittaker, and he has now revealed they turned down the chance to move up to the top flight out of loyalty.
He also added he felt the team in question were likely going to be relegated and he felt his Ayr side could go up.
The 40-year-old told the Warm-Up: “It’s football, you can be flying high, and look, we had opportunities to go elsewhere and you stay and try to be loyal at the time.
“Maybe we should have jumped ship at that point in time. We could have went to the Premiership.
“We could have had an opportunity for a few months, but it would have been hard because the team were probably going to come down anyway.
“And then you’re going back into the same league for the sake of two or three months of having that Premier League experience.
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“You would maybe regret it overall, but I thought what we done and where we were sitting there at the time, we had a good opportunity to go and kick on in the play-offs.”
Assessing how this season had gone for the Honest Men, he admitted the injuries that piled up were just too much.
“We started off not too bad, we were in the play-offs until the last eight games," added Brown.
“The amount of injuries that we got was scary at that point and we didn’t have the strength in depth in the squad.
“It was easy enough to part company. The club were really good with us so we’ve got no regrets whatsoever.
“We really enjoyed our time down there. It was some drive, I’m not going to lie.
“My alarm went at half past five, I’m still waking up at half past five thinking, ‘what am I doing with my life, what time is the golf course open at’?
“I enjoyed the day-to-day routine, the graft and going down together.
“It was great, we’d take turns and we’re close anyway as everybody knows.
“It was good for us to be working together. The lads were brilliant, especially, that first season finishing third.
“We pushed Falkirk and Livi quite far, but we probably didn’t have the strength in depth in the squad.”
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