Steve Bruce - officially confirmed (as Sheffield Wednesday boss)

[ktvillan]

Football managers will always thrive despite failure while the sport is swimming in cash and there are owners around who turn into idiots as soon as they enter a football club boardroom.  Like the idiot at Albion who hired Pulis and then Pardew.  I would mention Lerner but he was well beyond idiocy. 

Very few industries compare, although there are plenty of "top level executives" who fuck up and walk away with multi million pound severance and pension packages.  And often get taken on somewhere else if they have the right school tie.   Same with the corporate bankers who did their utmost to fuck up the entire world economy.

[footyskillz]

Steve Bruce says he is "physically and emotionally ready" and relishing the challenge of taking Sheffield Wednesday back to the Premier League

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47063246

It's over now with Villa as it's official he has another club a we moved on- good luck to him.

It wasn't sad to see him go , a relief !

And it's good he's feeling well for his own self a break was needed!

[mr underhill]

Like Dylan said, There's no success like failure and failure's no success at all

[Damo70]

They have just shown a teaser for a Bruce interview on Football Focus. "If we can get close to the Premier League in the next four or five years I will be happy". The Barbados sun must have got to his head. What manager of a bigger Championship club gets five years to win promotion?

[Sexual Ealing]

Death by euphemism. 'Close to' is the new thereabouts.

[Risso]

Bollocks to him and the horse he rode in on. Hope Wednesday get relegated.

[sickbeggar]

Nice to see him setting such high targets. close to the premier league? No idea what that means...presumably getting hammered in a play-off final.

[LowerNorthStand]

I bet he can smell the hot dogs 

[ChicagoLion]

Bollocks to him and the horse he rode in on. Hope Wednesday get relegated.

Yeh, fuck him.

[hilts_coolerking]

I've got nothing against Sheffield Wednesday; they've got Bruce as their manager and that's punishment enough.

He just wasn't up to it here and couldn't face that.  Long before the end I think he was motivated by what was best for himself rather than what was best for the club.

[Toronto Villa]

Bollocks to him and the horse he rode in on. Hope Wednesday get relegated.

A good number of their fans wanted him after the shit he delivered here. Mugs.

What he said is precisely the bollocks the spouted here.

[Damo70]

Bollocks to him and the horse he rode in on. Hope Wednesday get relegated.

A good number of their fans wanted him after the shit he delivered here. Mugs.

What he said is precisely the bollocks the spouted here.

A club who are sick of failing in the play offs have appointed a manager whose most recent achievement of note was failing in the play offs. Football eh?

[Axl Rose]

I wish he'd fucking retire.

Anyway, thank God he isn't our problem anymore. I predict he'll make Wednesday hard to beat, and hope they take some points off our rivals.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Bollocks to him and the horse he rode in on. Hope Wednesday get relegated.

This.

[kippaxvilla2]

Bruce bizarrely had a cabbage thrown at him by a Villa fan back in October, just hours before he was sacked, so he was greatly appreciative of fans supporting him once again.

“It was a bit bloody better than the last club I was at!” said Bruce. “We were conceding goals for fun, so that’s a positive and the big positive for the day was the reception I got from the supporters. It was quite remarkable and for each and every one of them to come out and support the team on a day like today just shows that great support that we’ve got,” he added.