So The First Manager Is Gone
So it took to the end of December for the first Premiership club to sack there manager! Thats a long time in football talk especically considering it seems like Blackburn fans seem to have been protesting against Steve Kean for months and months. And the lucky man .... Steve Bruce of Sunderland. One of the premierleagues most experienced managers is out of the job. It's really no suprise given that he spent big this summer and the club is still in 16th place in the table with 11 points from 13 games. For me Bruce was always a shock choice for the job given that he was born and raised as a Newcastle United fan even saying "I have always been a Newcastle lad and when I was a kid, I crawled under the turnstiles to get in to try and save a bob or whatever it was. They were my team, I went to support them as a boy and being a Geordie it's in-bred, you follow the club still the same today" I'm sure all Sunderland fans would of been thrilled with this but still he's a good manager and has kept the club relativly safe over the past few years.
Natually the talk now turns to who will be Bruce's successor with there been 2 clear front runners, Mark Hughes and Martin O'Neil both of whoem with a good track record in the premierleague and who will be linked to just about every job that comes available until they both have a new job. I would favor O'Neil if i were a Sunderland fan (I'm a Middlesbrough fan so i'm definatly not) he took Aston Villa from a similar position that Sunderland are in now and turned them to a top 6 club, although Hughes did a similar job with Blackburn and i'm sure with time could of done it with Fulham. The problem is that Sunderland, and the North East in particular is very hard sell to a manager or player when there will surely be more exciting jobs available soon. O'Neil rejected both Middlesbrough and Newcastle the summer he took over Villa suggesting that Sunderland may also not be a great destination for him. We'll just have to wait and see.
So it took to the end of December for the first Premiership club to sack there manager! Thats a long time in football talk especically considering it seems like Blackburn fans seem to have been protesting against Steve Kean for months and months. And the lucky man .... Steve Bruce of Sunderland. One of the premierleagues most experienced managers is out of the job. It's really no suprise given that he spent big this summer and the club is still in 16th place in the table with 11 points from 13 games. For me Bruce was always a shock choice for the job given that he was born and raised as a Newcastle United fan even saying "I have always been a Newcastle lad and when I was a kid, I crawled under the turnstiles to get in to try and save a bob or whatever it was. They were my team, I went to support them as a boy and being a Geordie it's in-bred, you follow the club still the same today" I'm sure all Sunderland fans would of been thrilled with this but still he's a good manager and has kept the club relativly safe over the past few years.
Natually the talk now turns to who will be Bruce's successor with there been 2 clear front runners, Mark Hughes and Martin O'Neil both of whoem with a good track record in the premierleague and who will be linked to just about every job that comes available until they both have a new job. I would favor O'Neil if i were a Sunderland fan (I'm a Middlesbrough fan so i'm definatly not) he took Aston Villa from a similar position that Sunderland are in now and turned them to a top 6 club, although Hughes did a similar job with Blackburn and i'm sure with time could of done it with Fulham. The problem is that Sunderland, and the North East in particular is very hard sell to a manager or player when there will surely be more exciting jobs available soon. O'Neil rejected both Middlesbrough and Newcastle the summer he took over Villa suggesting that Sunderland may also not be a great destination for him. We'll just have to wait and see.
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