Bruce Combating Adversity Head On ; Steve Bruce has Thick Skin but Even He Can Be Stung by Spiky Criticism. Chief Sports Writer Luke Edwards Heard a Man Trying to Stay Cool Despite the Heat On Sunderland
The Journal › February 20, 2010
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PRESSURE comes with the territory as a football manager. You put it on yourself and others happily do it for you. It is high in your blood and it is constantly on your mind.
Without a Premier League win in three months, the Black Cats are on the sort of dreadful run which gets a manager the sack and Steve Bruce is old enough and wise enough to know it.See the full content of this document
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Bruce Combating Adversity Head On ; Steve Bruce has Thick Skin but Even He Can Be Stung by Spiky Criticism. Chief Sports Writer Luke Edwards Heard a Man Trying to Stay Cool Despite the Heat On Sunderland
With every passing game the pressure has increased on him and his players, strangling the confidence out of the team like a python squeezing the life out of its prey. It is paralysing and eventually fatal if the pressure is not released and Bruce needs a win soon if he is going to avoid being crushed. In some ways it is his own fault.
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