Steve Bruce slams Newcastle.
Posted on November 5th, 2010 | 75 Comments |
Bruce claims that there was no need for Newcastle to play ‘Daydream Believer’, a 1967 hit by The Monkees, which prompted the home fans to serenade Sunderland with a much cruder version aimed at Steve Bruce at the final whistle and says that such a move was “typical of our etiquette”.
I’ll get onto Sunderland’s etiquette later on, but at the minute it is Bruce who is being the pantomime dame and not letting things drop. The fact he is sounding off suggests that he is hurting, but the classy move would be to suffer in silence. I’m pretty sure that the Sunderland fans will just want to forget about the match, until January at least, and will want to try to move on and recover from this hammering.
So they could do without bitter Bruce creating a fuss about it really and heaping yet more attention on them. Talking to The Express, Bruce had this to say.
“It was typical of their etiquette. Fortunately I didn’t hear it because I was already inside, but others did. I hope we can repeat the same dosage when they come to our place. It is 71 days to the next derby – not that I am counting. That is a motivating force.”
71 days? Not that anyone is counting though, Steve?
And whilst Bruce is deciding to fling around accusations of people lacking etiquette, I’d quite like to hear why he didn’t bother speaking to Chris Hughton after the match, as indicated by this little comment;
“No, I didn’t speak to him. I had just got him a new contract.”
Class!
Anyway, moving onto the subject of class, I notice that the behaviour of the Sunderland fans when they beat us 2-1 at the Stadium of Light has been completely forgotten. All of those incidents of coin throwing into the away end, the people on the pitch, the DVD’s and commemorative mugs released because of a massive 2-1 victory – the first victory for Sunderland at home against Newcastle in 29 years I hasten to add – all seems to have been forgotten by the bitter bunch.
Also, I was always taught that leaving halfway through lunch was rude, so what is the excuse the Sunderland fans have for that? Pathetic.
Whatever happens, it’s nice to know that we have rattled them, and hopefully Bruce’s bitterness will cloud his judgement and ruin their season.
One thing I know for certain, even now, with 71 days to go or whatever it is, is that our players won’t roll over like those in the red and white strip did on Sunday.
Now, one more time…..
NUFCBlog Author: toonsy
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too right we wont roll over :)