With their three most creative players injured, the manager faces a massive challenge to keep the club in the Premier League
Steve Bruce is hunting for a latter-day Guy Fawkes. Newcastle’s manager may have long since forgotten most of the history he learned at school but it seems a
Football equivalent of the gunpowder plot is brewing at the club’s training ground.
Bruce was so incensed by the deliberate leaking of details of his heated altercation with the midfielder Matt Ritchie to the Daily Mail that he used the word “treason” on Fridayyesterday during one of the most highly charged press conferences delivered by a Newcastle manager since Joe Kinnear’s expletive-ridden address in 2008.