Steve Brute

[Chicane]

[jackyboy]

To be such a prick and useless arse hole in his professional life he must practice being a prick in his private life.

The man is a grade one lying tosser and that opinion of him was formed many years ago

[Minhosa]

Awww Football Fwiends.....

[Danh1]

I met Steve Bruce at Benton Asda once. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.

He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”

I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen packets of bacon in his hands without paying.

The girl on the till was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Er, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the till.

When she took one of the packs of smoked bacon and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each pack and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

 

Grade A personal cunt.

 

[samptime29]

So every player who fucks over a club to go to another club or any manager who does similar is shithouse of a human being? The Sheff Wed thing was snide but you're lying if you say it doesn't happen all time in football.

[Rod]

Nobody knows what he is like as a human being in his day to day life. The comment is clearly OTT.

 

Why do you feel the constant need to defend him on it though?

 

Because the hatred on here is too much. Shithouse of a human being is a horrible insult. And we're talking about a football manager. Not liking him and wanting him gone is normal. Calling him a shithouse of a human being is not.

  Samp, have you got any statistics to back up your argument?  Thought not.

[samptime29]

Nobody knows what he is like as a human being in his day to day life. The comment is clearly OTT.

 

Why do you feel the constant need to defend him on it though?

 

Because the hatred on here is too much. Shithouse of a human being is a horrible insult. And we're talking about a football manager. Not liking him and wanting him gone is normal. Calling him a shithouse of a human being is not.

  Samp, have you got any statistics to back up your argument?  Thought not.

 

Answer my question.

[loki679]

So every player who fucks over a club to go to another club or any manager who does similar is shithouse of a human being? The Sheff Wed thing was snide but you're lying if you say it doesn't happen all time in football.

 

The way Bruce has gone on in his professional career?  Nah, that doesn't happen all the time in football.

 

Shit. House. Of. A. Man.

[Rod]

Nobody knows what he is like as a human being in his day to day life. The comment is clearly OTT.

 

Why do you feel the constant need to defend him on it though?

 

Because the hatred on here is too much. Shithouse of a human being is a horrible insult. And we're talking about a football manager. Not liking him and wanting him gone is normal. Calling him a shithouse of a human being is not.

  Samp, have you got any statistics to back up your argument?  Thought not.

 

Answer my question.

  Surprise surprise!  Samp is the minority AGAIN.  Do you ever question yourself why that is?  What question?

[samptime29]

So every player who fucks over a club to go to another club or any manager who does similar is shithouse of a human being? The Sheff Wed thing was snide but you're lying if you say it doesn't happen all time in football.

 

The way Bruce has gone on in his professional career?  Nah, that doesn't happen all the time in football.

 

Shit. House. Of. A. Man.

 

It happens all the time.  :lol:

 

Players fuck off clubs. Manager fuck off clubs. Trying to get out of contracts etc.

[samptime29]

Nobody knows what he is like as a human being in his day to day life. The comment is clearly OTT.

 

Why do you feel the constant need to defend him on it though?

 

Because the hatred on here is too much. Shithouse of a human being is a horrible insult. And we're talking about a football manager. Not liking him and wanting him gone is normal. Calling him a shithouse of a human being is not.

  Samp, have you got any statistics to back up your argument?  Thought not.

 

Answer my question.

  Surprise surprise!  Samp is the minority AGAIN.  Do you ever question yourself why that is?  What question?

 

Is every player or manager who fucks over a club like Bruce did with Sheff Wed (and there are plenty) a shitehouse of a human being?

[Rod]

Nobody knows what he is like as a human being in his day to day life. The comment is clearly OTT.

 

Why do you feel the constant need to defend him on it though?

 

Because the hatred on here is too much. Shithouse of a human being is a horrible insult. And we're talking about a football manager. Not liking him and wanting him gone is normal. Calling him a shithouse of a human being is not.

  Samp, have you got any statistics to back up your argument?  Thought not.

 

Answer my question.

  Surprise surprise!  Samp is the minority AGAIN.  Do you ever question yourself why that is?  What question?

 

Is every player or manager who fucks over a club like Bruce did with Sheff Wed (and there are plenty) a shitehouse of a human being?

  I have NEVER called Bruce a Shitehouse .  I do call him out as a very poor manager with very little or no tactical skills.  The stats are there Samp.  It's been an awful season.

[Yorkie]

An objectively rubbish season overseen by an objectively unsatisfactory manager who objectively represents the club's latest regression... yet still defending him to the hilt whenever an opportunity presents itself to do so.

 

What do you know, folks get emotional when you've got disingenuous, enabling chancers at the head of day to day club operations. Quite how there's a need to endlessly argue the semantics of the criticism every time someone says something a bit OTT, I really don't know.

 

Bruce contributes massively to the zombification of the club, just like Pardew did. Let people hate.

[Shearergol]

Nobody knows what he is like as a human being in his day to day life. The comment is clearly OTT.

 

Why do you feel the constant need to defend him on it though?

 

Because the hatred on here is too much. Shithouse of a human being is a horrible insult. And we're talking about a football manager. Not liking him and wanting him gone is normal. Calling him a shithouse of a human being is not.

  Samp, have you got any statistics to back up your argument?  Thought not.

 

Answer my question.

  Surprise surprise!  Samp is the minority AGAIN.  Do you ever question yourself why that is?  What question?

 

Is every player or manager who fucks over a club like Bruce did with Sheff Wed (and there are plenty) a shitehouse of a human being?

 

Share some examples, let's comment on them individually.

[Interpolic]

So every player who fucks over a club to go to another club or any manager who does similar is shithouse of a human being? The Sheff Wed thing was snide but you're lying if you say it doesn't happen all time in football.

 

The way Bruce has gone on in his professional career?  Nah, that doesn't happen all the time in football.

 

Shit. House. Of. A. Man.

 

It happens all the time.  [emoji38]

 

Players fuck off clubs. Manager fuck off clubs. Trying to get out of contracts etc.

Why you carrying on like he's only done it once? He's notorious for it and has been for years. See here:

 

Dickhead move from Bruce putting pressure on through the media like that, keep it all in house surely. "Talks still ongoing, nothing to report" would suffice.

 

I've given Bruce nowhere near the level of stick that others have on here, but he's a fine one to talk about commitment the way he treated Sheffield Wednesday, particularly when he was having a hard time on a personal level.

 

Missed this discussion at the time but just wanted to point out for anyone not aware that Bruce's questionable loyalty goes back a lot further than last year.

 

Take this article from 2011 when he was slagging off Bent for joining Villa, he already had a long list of instances where he'd fucked his club around to serve himself.

 

Sunderland’s Bruce can’t lecture Bent about loyalty

By Mitch Phillips January 20, 2011

 

Much-travelled Sunderland manager Steve Bruce either has a very short memory or the biggest brass neck in football but either way his claim that his club had been let down by Darren Bent’s disloyal move to Aston Villa takes some swallowing.

 

“It’s hugely disappointing and the players, our supporters and the club as a whole have every right to feel massively let down,” he complained after Bent’s transfer.

 

Moving from a club in sixth place to one above the drop zone only on goal difference might look odd at first glance, certainly if Bent’s justification for the move about joining a “big club” is to believed, but Bruce is surely the last man to start bleating about loyalty.

 

As a centre half winning rave reviews with Norwich City back in the 1980s, Bruce told anyone who would listen that he wanted to go to Manchester United.

 

When he became a manager of Wigan Athletic, he was so loyal that he walked out after two months to go to Crystal Palace. It was Steve Bruce who left Palace four months into his first season to take over Birmingham City.

 

And surely that was…Steve Bruce who then left Birmingham in acrimonious circumstances to return to Wigan, who he then left to join Sunderland.

 

Should Alex Ferguson decide to finally retire anytime soon and Manchester United were to enquire about Bruce’s availability to succeed him, how would his loyalty to Sunderland’s “players, supporters and club as a whole” fare then?

 

The fact is that, much as the fans want it to be otherwise, modern footballers have no more loyalty to their clubs than the average till operator does to their supermarket.

 

If a shop up the road offers a bigger salary then off they will go without a second thought for the customers and colleagues left behind.

 

So it is with Bent, and all the others whose negotiations are carried out by agents with only one target – get as much money for their client as they can.

 

Schalke 04 boss Felix Magath said this week that power had shifted too far in favour of the players and suggested that those who try to break their contracts should be banned from playing international or Champions League football.

 

It is an interesting suggestion, albeit one highly unlikely to ever come to fruition. Magath is trying to shut the stable door not just after the horse has bolted but after it has disappeared over the horizon.

[samptime29]

Nobody knows what he is like as a human being in his day to day life. The comment is clearly OTT.

 

Why do you feel the constant need to defend him on it though?

 

Because the hatred on here is too much. Shithouse of a human being is a horrible insult. And we're talking about a football manager. Not liking him and wanting him gone is normal. Calling him a shithouse of a human being is not.

  Samp, have you got any statistics to back up your argument?  Thought not.

 

Answer my question.

  Surprise surprise!  Samp is the minority AGAIN.  Do you ever question yourself why that is?  What question?

 

Is every player or manager who fucks over a club like Bruce did with Sheff Wed (and there are plenty) a shitehouse of a human being?

  I have NEVER called Bruce a Shitehouse .  I do call him out as a very poor manager with very little or no tactical skills.  The stats are there Samp.  It's been an awful season.

 

Fair enough.

[Interpolic]

And the fact Bruce been so incredibly disloyal throughout his own career and has the temerity to publically lecture a local kid on loyalty, that's another one to add to the wanker pile. All to serve his own case and help his relationship with Mike Ashley.

[TK-421]

As a manager, one of the only times Stevie was loyal to his club, ironically, was when his 'boyhood club' came calling back in 2004.

[Minhosa]

And the fact Bruce been so incredibly disloyal throughout his own career and has the temerity to publically lecture a local kid on loyalty, that's another one to add to the wanker pile. All to serve his own case and help his relationship with Mike Ashley.

 

Bang on Polic.

[Guest dabe]

Awful on a human level, heard he shits on people's doorsteps and lobs greased bacon at elderly people's windows from his Merc the rancid goiter.

 

Also, heard through the grapevine, he's an appalling manager with zero tactical acumen who relies on individual "magic" to see him through to an underwhelming 40+ points tally...that is, when he isn't being relegated with three different teams...

[NE27]

Awful on a human level, heard he shits on people's doorsteps and lobs greased bacon at elderly people's windows from his Merc the rancid goiter.

 

Also, heard through the grapevine, he's an appalling manager with zero tactical acumen who relies on individual "magic" to see him through to an underwhelming 40+ points tally...that is, when he isn't being relegated with three different teams...

 

First point is clearly bang on.

 

Second point does not tally up with what Steve mcmanaman and Graeme souness told me the other day mind?

[samptime29]

Nobody knows what he is like as a human being in his day to day life. The comment is clearly OTT.

 

Why do you feel the constant need to defend him on it though?

 

Because the hatred on here is too much. Shithouse of a human being is a horrible insult. And we're talking about a football manager. Not liking him and wanting him gone is normal. Calling him a shithouse of a human being is not.

  Samp, have you got any statistics to back up your argument?  Thought not.

 

Answer my question.

  Surprise surprise!  Samp is the minority AGAIN.  Do you ever question yourself why that is?  What question?

 

Is every player or manager who fucks over a club like Bruce did with Sheff Wed (and there are plenty) a shitehouse of a human being?

 

Share some examples, let's comment on them individually.

 

Cabaye refused to play for us. Shitehouse of a human being? Dan Gosling fucked off Everton to come us. Shitehouse? Peter Odemwingie saga? Gabriel Heinze trying to snide Man Utd to go to Liverpool? Dider Domi went AWOL. Mahrez went AWOL.  Anelka, Payet, Costa, Pierre van Hooijdonk all went AWOL. Marco Silva saga? Is he a shitehouse of a human being? Tons of examples.

[loki679]

Was it a pattern throughout their careers?

[Shearergol]

Nobody knows what he is like as a human being in his day to day life. The comment is clearly OTT.

 

Why do you feel the constant need to defend him on it though?

 

Because the hatred on here is too much. Shithouse of a human being is a horrible insult. And we're talking about a football manager. Not liking him and wanting him gone is normal. Calling him a shithouse of a human being is not.

  Samp, have you got any statistics to back up your argument?  Thought not.

 

Answer my question.

  Surprise surprise!  Samp is the minority AGAIN.  Do you ever question yourself why that is?  What question?

 

Is every player or manager who fucks over a club like Bruce did with Sheff Wed (and there are plenty) a shitehouse of a human being?

 

Share some examples, let's comment on them individually.

 

Cabaye refused to play for us. Shitehouse of a human being? Dan Gosling fucked off Everton to come us. Shitehouse? Peter Odemwingie saga? Gabriel Heinze trying to snide Man Utd to go to Liverpool? Dider Domi went AWOL. Mahrez went AWOL.  Anelka, Payet, Costa, Pierre van Hooijdonk all went AWOL. Marco Silva saga? Is he a shitehouse of a human being? Tons of examples.

 

Well a lot of those could easily be considered a shitehouse of a human being, yeah. I was hoping you'd list more manager though tbh. Remind me about Silva - I know he left Hull when they got relegated, but wasn't he sacked from Watford and Everton? Where's the comparison?

[samptime29]

Figo sniding Barca to go to Real. He denied it in the press a few weeks before it happens. Is he a shithouse of a human being? Alex Mcleish fucking over Birmingham to go their hated rivals Villa. He quit via email. Shithouse of a human being?