CHRIS Turner is expecting to oversee a complete end of season review of Hartlepool United.

Whether he remains as manager remains to be confirmed.

Appointed as boss until the end of the season from mid- December when Danny Wilson was sacked, Turner remains the club’s director of sport.

There’s every chance he will stay as manager next season, but he last night admitted how much he is enjoying being back in the Victoria Park dug out.

“I’ve not been in it (management) for three years, then put back into it this season brought back to me how difficult it is being a manager,’’ he reflected.

“I would watch managers getting agitated on Match of the Day and it’s down to one man. It’s a lonely place being a manager.

“The pressure of the job doesn’t stop. It becomes something of an obsession – you always picture the worst to happen, but you don’t want it to.

“You are always thinking of selections, teams, tactics.

Even when you are winning, it doesn’t leave you – because you are trying to get better all the time.

“It’s ten times harder when you are losing, the pressure starts to bite.

“But I’ve enjoyed coming back into the role.’’ He added on BBC Tees: “People think the manager on the sideline can affect the game on the pitch. They scream at you as if you can make that player score, close down or save.

“There are managers who rant and rave, some stand there calmly. I like to get involved and do it all for them.

“Like the fan in the seat, you are on the sideline. Something happens on the field you have warned about and you get worked up.

“We have 3,500 coming in – people still moan when we win. They could have picked a better team.’’ Saturday’s win at Yeovil has put Pools within touching distance of League One safety ahead of tonight’s fixtures, which rivals Northampton, Brighton and Yeovil all play.

Pools meet Leeds at Victoria Park on Saturday and a point would be enough to confirm their status for next season.

“If we had just got one point on Saturday, the last couple of games would have been made even harder,’’ he said. “I think 51 points should be enough to secure League One football.’’ Pools are now on 50 points with two games to come.