How to you compare anything to duties as a soldier?? No job compares to that one.
However, there are a number of high pressure jobs that fall below that of the life of a front line soldier, and football manager is one of them. Hell, you can get pressure in any job, from factory worker (done that) to high earning project manager (doing that).
Regardless of what Cest thinks, Bruce is a decent bloke and will be hurting from the questions been asked about his abilities as would anybody who's abilities have been questioned.
I dont deny that he may be a canny bloke, in fact I've actually met him and found him to be just so but this is not the questions at hand is it?
My criticism is both valid and evidenced with facts. Since January this year (nearly 10 full months ago) we have been utterly hapless in the league, knocked out of 2 cup competitions by lower league opposition, scraped a 94th min draw at home to the mags and lost one. If we think about what happened nearly 52 weeks this weekend it becomes even more painful.
Its not Bruce the man I question its Bruce the Sunderland manager and for me, he has utterly failed. He has managed to reduce our home crowds to mid 30,000 from 42,000 average 18 months ago and heaped one of the worst home forms on us this calendar year for decades.
He is completely clueless and now merely flapping around his pals in the media, looking for cheap sympathy angles to mask his hapless management. If he is 'upset' that many of us are now totally fed up losing/being thrashed in derby games to poor mag sides, sick of seeing us lose at home and then after 1 game and 45 mins of decent football all is okay he is sadly deluded.
He has had his chance to impress. Had ample time to show us he is achieving something and for me the signs are poor. The football is poor and the return for the situation he has been handed at the club extremely poor indeed.
If he wins say 5 of the next 7 or 8 games and loses only 1 (Man Utd) he will get the crowd back in side. Anything less and its no deal. He has ****ed up any good will from the summer after chucking yet anther derby game with his ****e nervous as a kitten 1 up front tactics. That good will has totally gone for me and I just want shot of him asap. If that upsets him tough ****e.
He has brought that stinging and severe criticism on himself 100% and to get any favour back needs to perform a miracle he simply is incapable of doing imo.
Bruce out 100% still here.