What’s the most stressful managerial position in football? Manchester United? City? Real? Barcelona? PSG? Nope, it’s Newcastle United, and it’s Newcastle before the takeover. ‘Your dad is a *******, I hope he dies of Covid’. ‘Useless’. ‘A fat waste of space’. ‘A stupid, tactically inept cabbage head’. ‘Old broken nose’. Those are only few abuses recently sacked Steve Bruce had to absorb during his tenure at his boyhood club. And now, because of the pressure in Newcastle, the 60-year old is thinking of retirement. End of the road for Steve Bruce, Paulo Fonseca top candidate for Newcastle jobA club with a big following has not won any trophies since 1955, and for the last 14 years, fans were further suffering, because the owner Mike Ashley didn’t invest at all. So, whoever came to the club was faced with a nervous and angry fan base right from the beginning. What’s even worse, whoever came to be Newcastle coach (apart from Rafa Benitez) was already branded ‘weak’, since he decided to work under Ashley. And Bruce came after very popular Benitez and didn’t want to criticize the owner. Not to mention that he, as a die-hard Newcastle supporter and a season ticket holder was manager of their bitter rivals Sunderland from 20.You are, without a doubt, one of the most gentle people that I have ever met in the world of football. You have been a man of your word, a caring man and a fair man who never hesitated to protect us. I will never forget how you treated me, for that I will be forever grateful pic.twitter.com/lJgSL5GD4Q— Allan Saint-Maximin (@asaintmaximin) October 20, 2021 On top of that, Newcastle only had one signing this summer, and again, Bruce was not complaining to the club. The results were horrible, but he refused to leave, which angered the fans even more. Now, when the new ownership relieved his of his misery, after his 1000th managerial game, he decided to speak.“By the time I got to Newcastle, I thought I could handle everything thrown at me but it has been very, very tough. To never really be wanted, to feel that people wanted me to fail, to read people constantly saying I would fail, that I was useless, a fat waste of space, a stupid, tactically inept cabbage head or whatever. And it was from day one. ‘I think this might be my last job. It’s not just about me, it’s taken its toll on my whole family because they are all Geordies and I can’t ignore that” he told The Telegraph.13 – Steve Bruce’s departure marks the 13th time that a Newcastle manager has departed the club during an ongoing Premier League campaign. It’s the most in-season departures for any club in the competition. Chaos. pic.twitter.com/wIQFb32dnQ— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) October 20, 2021 Bruce has been with his wife Janet since their school days, and they are married since 1983, and have kids and grandsons, and everybody was affected by this constant abuse. His son Alex revealed he was abused because of his father, and one of the worst of them was ‘Your dad is a *******, I hope he dies of Covid’. “They have been worried about me… especially my wife Jan. What an amazing woman she is, incredible, she’s just a fantastic woman, wife and mother and grandmother. She dealt with the death of my parents, hers have not been very well. And then she had me to worry about and what I’ve been going through the last couple of years” revealed Bruce.Players clash with coaches, and manager’s own family thinks he is sick: Welcome to Newcastle’s hellEven thou he could have quit numerous times and stop this abuse, former Manchester United defender kept repeating that he will never give up, while media reported that he has 1.2 billion Ksh compensation in his contract, which prompted even more abuse from the fans. If he decided to call it quits after this job, he will be leading a rich pensioners life.
