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Bruce really shouldn't have taken the job knowing he was going to be this f***ing s*** at it and unable to deal with the mildest criticism. It's as if he took the job for entirely self centred reasons but that can't be right since he's such a nice bloke and a massive toon fan.

"look at how crap the alternatives are, remember how I'm doing you all a favour by owning the club. LEEDS". Everything related to Ashley is PR bullshit.

Nah, not when previously die-hard fans have very good reasons for staying away. He's either fucking stupid or a prick, take your pick.

^ this mess is trying to tell professional athletes to have some pride, presumably with a straight face or as straight a face as he can manage.

“Hopefully we can get a sold out stadium [against Manchester United} because at the moment we haven’t had the sell-outs that we would like." Fuck off you plank.

Blaming the players publicly is pure self preservation. Wonder if he's all "I did this" when we win and "we/they did this" when we lose, haven't noticed.

Aye, he's not a fan. Absolutely no chance. He's a Man U fan. It's weird. He's obviously not a fan like the people on here - he can't be, given what he's said and what he's done; but he must have an amount of affection or he wouldn't have wriggled out of Sheff Wed to get here. Not sure I agree with that like, he's jumped up a division to manage the biggest club he's ever managed through pure opportunism. He might have thought his birthplace might offset the toxicity but honestly I think that's where it begins and ends re his connection to the area.

Always forget about Bruce's glorious managerial spell at Norwich.

He's made snide comments about Newcastle fans every chance he's had so far as well. Never shown any affinity towards Newcastle until it helped him get a better job. Nice guy Steve is a total wanker.

There are also the countless transfers where players come here and never end up playing - Xisco, Saivet, Ferreyra, Nacho etc. Dodgy AF.

finally seems to have started to turn. (short thread)

Shot through the heart And you're to blame You give Wallsend a bad name (bad name)

Wtf, we weren't even in the PL for one of those seasons and still miles ahead

45 minutes to go!

I'm amazed the bid looks like shite and gives credence to Ashley's narrative that all of the bids he's getting are a waste of time. Such an unlucky bloke.

I took it to mean they are referring to his time as a player, not a manager. Doubt he won much in Europe as a player as he will have been away from Man Utd by treble in 99 (just checked - Cup Winners Cup in 91 and the Super Cup the same year if you count that).

Derby have completely thrown them under the bus for it too: https://www.dcfc.co.uk/news/2019/09/club-statement-6 Edit: Aha soz I didn't realise it was drink driving. Thought they were needlessly grassing him up for hurting his knee while pissed.

I highly doubt we would have spent much money that summer if we'd stayed up. With that manager and those players it was probably about enough to finish in mid-table, which as we've all seen is the ceiling of ambition for the club.

To paraphrase Stewart Lee, if you were to lock Michael Owen for sixty years in an empty underground bunker which contained nothing but a woolly tea cosy, he would not even be curious enough to be tempted to see if the tea cosy would make a serviceable hat.

Yes.

The parallels with the McClaren situation are frightening

That plank gives alchies a bad name.

Thank fuck for that, I was about to keel over on Saturday it was that scintillating.