Steve Bruce
Steve Bruce
Stephen Roger "Steve" Bruceis an English professional football manager and former player who is currently without a club, having left Hull City in July 2016. Born in Corbridge, Northumberland, he was a promising schoolboy footballer but was rejected by several professional clubs. He was on the verge of quitting the game altogether when he was offered a trial with Gillingham. Bruce was offered an apprenticeship and went on to play more than 200 games for the club before joining Norwich City...
ProfessionSoccer Player
Date of Birth31 December 1960
against chelsea cracking good home needed result
We've had a good week. We've had a cracking result against Chelsea and Bolton at home and we needed to come away from home and get something.
dialogue
There is dialogue between the two clubs, and we will have to see what develops.
close couple irons tying
We have a couple of irons in the fire. We are close to tying up a couple of things.
reading side wrong
Too often we are reading about him on the wrong side of the newspaper-he should be on the back pages, not the front.
battered courage
We've been battered all week, and at least (the players) have responded. We showed courage to take them on.
cannot elementary gave half level mistakes penalty second until
We were in it up until the second half when we gave the penalty away. At this level you cannot make elementary mistakes like that.
chance
We've had two opportunities and to give yourself any chance here you have to take one of them and unfortunately for us we didn't.
asked derby jamie
Derby asked to take Jamie but, at the moment, with the way we are and with the injuries, no-one is going anywhere.
coming pleased team
It was never a classic, but when you're the away team coming to a place like Fulham then you're pleased to come away with something.
available convinced head players realistic stay
It's so frustrating. I'm convinced we would stay up if players like those two were available but we have got to be realistic now. In my head I'm just dismissing them.
confident pull tough
It's going to be a tough winter, but I'm confident we can pull through.
best delighted form hope last run since time
It's been a long, long, time since he scored and I'm delighted for him too. This time last year, he went on his best run of form and I hope he does it again.
beyond damaged hope
It's damaged us, let's hope not beyond repair.
couple goals huge score seen
We've seen Jiri score a couple of goals like that before but that was his most important, that's for sure. It was huge result.