Postecoglou was appointed as Nuno Espirito Santo’s successor in September but was sacked by owner Evangelos Marinakis just 39 days later.
Ange Postecoglou refused to blame anyone but himself for his ill-fated stint as Nottingham Forest manager as he conceded he made “a bad decision” taking the job.
“There’s no point me blaming it on ‘I didn’t get time’ or anything,” said the 60-year-old. “I should never have gone in there. That was on me. That was a bad decision by me to go in there. I’ve got to take ownership of that.
“It was too soon after Tottenham. I was taking over at a time where they were kind of used to doing things a certain way and I’m obviously going to do things differently. I’ve got to cop that, that was my mistake. It’s no-one else’s fault.
“Everyone around me was saying (don’t take it) but it’s the first time I wasn’t working in 20-odd years, and I was lost. And they had some good players, and that sucked me in.
“When you go into a club most of the time that club wants change, but the reality of it is I think they were reluctant to get rid of Nuno. It was only because of what happened behind the scenes (a fallout between Marinakis and Nuno) but there was no way they would have sacked Nuno after last year.
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