Paul Heckingbottom returns to Elland Road this weekend as he takes on Leeds United for the first time since his four-month spell in charge at the club was brought to an abrupt end.
The 43-year-old was in charge at Leeds for just 16 games after he took over from Thomas Christiansen in February 2018 and steered the club to a 13th place finish in the Championship.
A stint at Hibernian followed before he took over as Sheffield United's under-23s coach last year and Heckingbottom now finds himself caretaker manager after Chris Wilder's departure earlier this month.
The fixture list has thrown up a trip to his former club in his second Premier League match in charge of the Blades and this has naturally brought about some introspection from the former Barnsley boss, who has highlight the contrasting situation that he has inherited at Bramall Lane to what he walked into in Leeds.
"It was totally different, for reasons I wouldn't go into because it would be wrong of me to say my thoughts, but it was totally different," he told Yorkshire Live.
"Leeds hadn't lost someone who had dragged the club from League One to the Premier League and had so much success, so that's different in a way.
"But Leeds also had a bigger squad with a lot of players who were never going to play for Leeds.
"So the atmosphere would have never changed until you had the ability to get those players out the door and out the building, simply because there were 20-odd knowing they were never going to play, so it was a demotivated place.
"Whereas here it's the opposite.
"We could do with a few more players fit and available to help out, so it was totally different in my eyes."
Heckingbottom won just four of his matches in charge of Leeds and would be replaced Marcelo Bielsa in the summer of 2018.
The Blades make the short trip to West Yorkshire sitting rock bottom of the Premier League, nine places and 25 points behind Bielsa's side.
