Are Birmingham missing Bruce as Liverpool player suggests?
by stresster on April 28th, 2008
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They have just two matches to save their Premier League bacon, and if Birmingham fail to get anything from Saturday’s match at Fulham, it’s possible that relegation will be out of their hands. Alex McLeish saw his Blues team storm into a two-goal lead against Liverpool on Saturday, before being pegged back to a 2-2 draw, a result which keeps them in the bottom three.
According to Liverpool and ex-Brum winger Jermaine Pennant, it didn’t have to be this way. The Daily Mail reports that he reckons City would be safe if they had kept hold of Steve Bruce as manager. After all, the Wigan boss has done extremely well at the JJB Stadium instead, steering the Latics away from the drop zone with several games to spare.
Pennant said: “If they go to Fulham and get a result I am sure they will get out of it, but without a shadow of a doubt they have missed Steve Bruce.
“He got the club up and did well for Birmingham. Now he is doing it for Wigan because they have scrapped their way out of it.
“Birmingham miss him and it will prove costly because getting a new manager halfway through the season when you are in a tight spot is a massive upheaval.”
After Bruce left the club, Blues co-ower David Sullivan stated that they were better off with McLeish at the helm and had done very well for themselves. These words could come back to haunt him, especially with the public spat that has ensued between the Birmingham board and their former manager in recent months.
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Paul - April 28th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Oh my God yes! All the fellow Blues fans I speak to speak longingly with moist eyes about the great days we enjoyed under Steve Bruce. How we yearn for a return to the days of playing one up front at home. Who better than SB to take us back to the halcyon days of lumping the ball up front to a big man and hoping for the best. Big Eck is nowhere near as adept as Bruce at confounding everyone in the crowd with his superb substitutions.
Jermaine Pennant had a good game on Saturday, but playing is what he should stick to, not opining on our business. He isn’t exactly the Brain of Britain is he?
Alan Watton - April 28th, 2008 at 11:50 am
This Team is missing Steve Bruce and Lets hope that at the end of the season he takes all his wonderful signings with him. Ridgewell, Schmitz, Parnaby, Quedreu, Kingson, O’Connor,for Starters. Non of these are good enough for the team that scraped out of the championship. Money wasted which could have gone to pay two half decent players.
I belive Steve Bruce has left us deliberately in the soft stuff and his move to Wigan was planned some months. He knew that he was for the chop but knew Sullivan wanted not to pay him off.
To quote KK ‘ I would love it if after he and Coppell contrived draw on Saturday and Wigan went down.
james Black - April 28th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Spot on Paul. Im not going to slag Brucey but im afraid that Pennant was way off the mark. Tactically Bruce was a disaster sometimes and im not saying he was a bad manager but i don’t think we was going to move forward anymore under him simple as that. Mcliesh is far more tactically astute and sometimes Bruce was just not at the races with his tactics and limited way of playing. Im not saying he was a bad manager as sometimes we played some good football under him but the proof of the pudding will come next year assuming we survive this season and keep our premier status. We had a good year under him where we finished mid table and somewhat over achieved but frankly as Wigan will soon find out he just is not always very smart. lets wait and see what happens but its not Bruce signings that have lifted Wigan and Heskey as lovable as he is is good in some games and useless in most The bubble will burst at Wigan and i think you will see Mcliesh grow as a manager. I wouldnt be so quick to judge. lets see ok.