This one is hilarious. Newcastle United fans will owe Steve Bruce an apology as he leads United to comfortable survival.
Which one of his media chums has come out with this nonsense? This week it is Gabby Agbonlahor to spout this utter rubbish.
Speaking to The Football Insider, the ex-Villa wind up merchant said the following
“I’ve said this all through the season that Steve Bruce deserved people to get off his back,”
Quite what Bruce has done this season other than drag a mid table quality squad into a serious battle against relegation is beyond me and that certainly does not deserve people to get off his back, quite the opposite in fact.
“He’s had a hard season with injuries, coronavirus affected his squad the most with players missing games.”
Newcastle United are not the only club to have suffered an outbreak of covid-19, it’s just at Newcastle that is still being used as an excuse months and months on with all effected players having been recovered for a while.
“Once you get Callum Wilson back, once you get Allan Saint-Maximin back they’ll be a different team and it’s shown already.”
Someone really needs to show Gabby our form when the two have been available this season, it’s hardly brilliant.
“Newcastle will be absolutely fine, they’ve got no chance of going down. They will continue to get wins.”
Hopefully he is spot on with this one but the phrase ‘continue to get wins’ did amuse me. Three from the last 22 outings is hardly the hallmark of a good run and a team that gets ‘wins’ on a regular basis.
“Newcastle fans will owe Steve Bruce an apology for the way they’ve treated him.”
What about an apology for the United fans from Bruce? Not only for the turgid football on offer but also for the continued insults to our intelligence and putting the fanbase down at every opportunity.
“Hopefully the Newcastle chairman will give him some money in the summer to build an even better team.”
Of course we all hope this but the use of ‘even better’ did amuse me. As if being 17th is some sort of big achievement that will take some beating. Hardly.
Agbonlahor is well known to United fans for his bizarre take on matters and only last month he came out in support of his former manager despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Only Steve Bruce could get praised for taking this Newcastle side 17th and unfortunately this is just another example of rank bad punditry by a former pro.