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
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.
club critics-and-criticism entitled owner respect
I'm disappointed by the owner's criticism. I don't think that should be aired in public. But he is the owner of the club and you have to respect what he says. He is entitled to his opinion.
atrocious ball bit delighted few horrible night played reaction reading takes terrific time
I'm delighted for the young lads. It was a horrible night and the ball was swerving all over the place in atrocious conditions. It takes a little bit of time to settle. A few of them haven't played at this level. I thought the reaction was terrific after Reading equalized.
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.
beyond damaged hope
It's damaged us, let's hope not beyond repair.
absolute games guys lose media territory word
You guys in the media use this word 'pressure'. You lose two games and you are under pressure. It's absolute nonsense. Laughable. But that's the territory we're in.
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.
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.
days few hopefully knee past sent
Emile's knee has been aggravating him the past few days so we've sent him for a check. Hopefully it's nothing too serious.
close couple irons tying
We have a couple of irons in the fire. We are close to tying up a couple of things.
cannot life support
We have done everything we can to support him. But we cannot live his life for him.