Stephen Bradley says he snubbed Lincoln City because he wants ‘to finish what he started’ at Shamrock Rovers.
And the Hoops boss got back to winning ways in great style tonight after his champions stuffed Finn Harps in Tallaght.
Earlier, Bradley committed his immediate future to Rovers by rejecting the League One club's advances after a week of tense, see-saw negotiations that went to the wire.
Bradley, who is targeting Europe’s group stages this summer, said: “It was a difficult decision because they are a really good club with really good people.
“They have a really good plan, a club going in the right direction. But so are we, and I felt we’ve started to build something here."
Bradley confirmed that Lincoln also wanted his right-hand men Stephen McPhail and Glenn Cronin to join him in England.
But he added: “We feel we owe it to those around us - players and staff - to finish what we started. We weighed everything up and had a good, long think about it and had a chat.
“But sometimes you feel we’re not quite finished and we get that feeling that there’s more to come from this group, more to come from us.
