LIVE: Grant McCann unveiled as new Peterborough United manager

Phew.

I better go and give my fingers a rest but that was that. Grant McCann is now officially the new boss and below is everything that was said at the unveiling.

He now has to prepare his side to face his old side Hull on Saturday. The football scriptwriters really are brilliant.

We will see you then!

Finally, Jason Neale confirms that Grant is the only manager that the club spoke to.

For us to do this as a collective was super important. You get the usual managers call you up and approach you but we had a very good conversation about who he wanted to approach.

Grant was on our approach list but I do think we did the right thing. We took a long time to think about where we were, what did we want to accomplish?

People always have to understand that what we wanted to do was long term and we’re really excited about what we’ve started.

On the field, it really has been more difficult that we thought but we really firmly believe that we had a group of players, we had the academy players and we had a style and that we’ve lost out way a bit. That’s why we approached Grant.

I’m not looking at these games as free hits. I’m quite a calm person but in my heart there is areal burning desire to do well, don’t worry about that.

I’m just looking at Saturday and a game we need to get three points from.

I had to have a conversation with my family, the reason being we live in the area and my kids are at the academy and go to school here and I had to make sure we were all in agreement but from the football side, I didn’t really have to think twice.

I am looking forward to Saturday, it’s only been four or five weeks I've been out of work but it’s felt a lot longer than that.

There are no bad feelings with Hull, It’s football, I understand it. I had a really good time, hopefully I left them in a good place but I want to beat them on Saturday.

There is going to be a real collaborative approach until the end of the season. It’s a real calm approach and let’s see how it goes.

There has been no decisions over the future of Matthew Etherington yet says Grant.

Cliff Byrne is definitely coming in as his assistant, Grant wanted him the first time he took over but Cliff did not feel he was ready for the opportunity and did not come.

I probably did have a belief I would come back. I haven’t moved from the area. I love it here. My kids are in the academy and my wife is really settled here and I’m really pleased to be here.

Grant: No I think everything happens for a reason. I felt really privileged to have been given the job at the time and I obviously learnt a lot from that time both about myself and how I see things on the pitch.

There were no sour grapes, I always knew I would have a strong career in management and I believed in myself. Now, I need to get that belief into the players.