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The Sky Sports Football Podcast

Off Script: Steve Bruce – captaincy, headers, management

The Sky Sports Football Podcast

Sky Sports

Sports, Sports News, Soccer, News

4718 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Steve Bruce sits down with Geoff Shreeves to reflect on his five-year spell as Man Utd captain, his acrimonious Old Trafford exit, the transition into management, and why he prefers the level playing field of the Championship.

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0:28.2

What brought home to you the difference between Norwich and Manchester United the most?

0:34.2

Was there one thing when you made the move up, you thought, wow, this is different gravy, this is different. Was there one thing when you made the move up that you thought wow this this is

0:39.3

different gravy this is different was there one thing that stood out for a start the

0:43.1

difficult one was walking into the dressing room and seeing the likes of Brian Robson

0:47.8

Norman Whiteside Gordon Strach and yesper Olson and of course I'm sitting next to

0:53.1

Paul McGrath who who after training with him for just two days,

0:58.4

I was like, oh my gosh, am I supposed to be replacing him? Because he is absolutely unbelievable.

1:06.7

I mean, unfortunately, he was dogged with injuries, Paul, and didn't maybe play enough.

1:12.7

But, you know, went to Aston Villa, you know, trained on a bike,

1:16.2

and I think they won four times player of the year.

1:19.2

I mean, but I think it was a moment of playing for Manchester.

1:24.0

There's no such thing as a friendly for Manu, none.

1:29.0

Everybody wants to beat you.

1:36.4

And the enormity of that, from back pages to front pages, was the increase, the demand on you was instant. And I think that is the big thing that a lot of players have to come to terms

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