Huddersfield Town F.C. Managers - Steve Bruce, Herbert Chapman, Neil Warnock, Bill Shankly, List of Huddersfield Town F.C. Managers (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Steve Bruce, Herbert Chapman, Neil Warnock, Bill Shankly, List of Huddersfield Town F.C. managers, Brian Horton, Lee Clark, Peter Jackson, Graham Mitchell, Lou Macari, Mick Wadsworth, Andy Beattie, Mel Machin, Clem Stephenson, Bobby Collins, Stan Ternent, Andy Ritchie, Malcolm Macdonald, Leslie Knighton, Gerry Murphy, Ian Greaves, David Steele, Eoin Hand, John Haselden, Ian Ross, Tom Johnston, Mick Buxton, Ted Magner, Eddie Boot, Dick Pudan, Steve Smith, Ambrose Langley, Arthur Fairclough, George Stephenson, Fred Walker, Cecil Potter, Jack Chaplin. Excerpt: Stephen Roger "Steve" Bruce (born 31 December 1960) is an English football manager and former player. Born in Corbridge, Northumberland, he was a promising schoolboy footballer but was rejected by a number of professional clubs. He was on the verge of quitting the game altogether when he was offered a trial with Gillingham. Bruce was offered an apprenticeship and went on to play more than 200 games for the club before joining Norwich City in 1984. In 1987, he moved to Manchester United, with whom he achieved great success, winning the Premier League, FA Cup and the Football League Cup. He also became the first English player of the twentieth century to captain a team to The Double. Despite his success on the field, he was never selected to play for the England national team. Commentators and contemporaries have described him as one of the best English players of the 1980s and 1990s never to play for his country at full international level. Bruce began his managerial career with Sheffield United, and spent short periods of time managing Huddersfield Town, Wigan Athletic and Crystal Palace before joining Birmingham City in 2001. He twice led Birmingham to promotion to the Premier League during his tenure of nearly six years, but resigned in 2007 to begin a second s...