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30th December 2016
06:14pm GMT

"But you always tell your players that the game will challenge you in all sorts of ways. The game can be cruel. In order to have any chance you have to be strong.
"You have to believe in your work, you have to believe in how you do things as a group. It can't be thrown off track every time something goes against you."
Clearly, Bradley had hoped for a chance to strengthen his squad in the January transfer window, but suggested that the 4-1 defeat by West Ham on Boxing Day saw any such plans abandoned.
"What I think happened is that [result] made everybody nervous," he explained.
"That loss and that feeling inside the Liberty that day meant that all the discussions and all the plans got thrown out of the window, and somebody needed to go. And let's face it, the way that works is the first one that's out is the manager.
"I'm disappointed that somehow, when a few games go against you, all of a sudden all of those discussions and all of the ideas of what it was going to take to turn this around got pushed aside."Explore more on these topics: