Steve Bruce is what Andy Townsend would doubtless call a “proper football man”.
That means he played in the pre-Premier League era, scrubbed boots as a youngster, likes long ball football and pints, hates gloves and the internet, and has a chip on his shoulder.
It also means he has a different view on nutrition to your new fangled continental bosses, like 20-year-Premier-League-veteran-yet-someone-proper-football-men-are-still-somehow-suspicious-of Arsene Wenger.
For Wenger, what you put in your body is the fuel on which a player runs. Putting the right fuel in is as crucial as training correctly, knowing your tactics or any other part of preparation.
For Brucie, it’s apparently more a case of, do as I say, not as I do, after this picture emerged on Saturday night.
Yes, that is the Aston Villa manager standing patiently in line to be served at what appears to be a kebab shop – while still dressed in his club training gear.
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Despite the brilliance of the picture above, it’s probably only the second best story we’ve covered about Brucie this weekend.
The top spot must surely go to the news that, fed up with Ross McCormack’s excuses for not turning up to training – which reportedly included his electric gates being broken – the Villa boss drove round to the striker’s house personally to tear a strip off him, presumably stopping off for a kebab on the way home…
