Michael O’Neill says he “perhaps underestimated” the calls for of juggling head coach duties at Northern Eire and Blackburn Rovers after steering the membership to security within the Championship.
O’Neill took interim cost on a deal till the tip of the season at Ewood Park in February with the membership twenty second within the Championship desk.
Final month, he additionally led Northern Eire into the nation’s World Cup play-off towards Italy, shedding 2-0 in Bergamo.
However after securing Rovers’ second-tier standing for an additional 12 months with victory over Sheffield United on Wednesday night, he admitted he has a choice to make about his future.
“You’ll be able to’t do each, there is no means you can do each as a result of I used to be solely capable of do the 2 issues as a result of the [play-off] recreation was in March, there is no means you can do it when the video games are in September, October, November, it is simply… it is not doable,” O’Neill instructed BBC Radio Lancashire.
“It was powerful sufficient to be trustworthy and I perhaps underestimated that a bit of bit however I used to be lucky I had a very good workers at Northern Eire.
“The crew was extraordinarily nicely ready for the Italy recreation. Sadly we did not recover from the road in that recreation, however sooner or later I am going to should decide by hook or by crook.”
