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 close club decided five foreigners irish manchester mother nearly united
With my mother being Irish it was a close call. I nearly went, but I decided against it as we were going to be hindered as a club at Manchester United with the five foreigners rule.
fair five forward four game goals looked minutes threat time
In the first 45 minutes we looked a threat every time we went forward and to be fair we could have been four or five goals up and it could have been game over at half-time,
bid opening
The opening bid is laughable. It is so derisory.
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.
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.
hoped impeccable record taken upset
We are upset Emile has got another ban. He has an impeccable record and we hoped it would have been taken into account.
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.
cannot life support
We have done everything we can to support him. But we cannot live his life for him.
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.
close couple irons tying
We have a couple of irons in the fire. We are close to tying up a couple of things.
fed savage teeth
I do not want to give Robbie Savage any more publicity. I am fed up to the back teeth with him.