{"id":179379,"date":"2025-10-04T20:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T20:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/179379\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T20:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T20:54:07","slug":"steve-bruce-blackpool-sack-veteran-boss-after-poor-start-to-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/179379\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Bruce: Blackpool sack veteran boss after poor start to season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bruce enjoyed a strong start at Bloomfield Road, with four wins and a draw from his first five games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He took a two-week leave of absence at the end of last October after his four-month-old grandson Madison died and released a statement thanking &#8220;the footballing world&#8221; for the support he received during that time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Blackpool lost just five of their final 25 League One matches but 10 draws in that time put paid to any hopes of breaking into the top six places.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They recruited widely in the summer with experienced defenders Fraser Horsfall and Michael Ihiekwe and former Sunderland captain George Honeyman among the new arrivals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The season began with a home defeat by Stevenage before a 4-1 reverse at Exeter City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They then held on to beat much-fancied Huddersfield 3-2 for their first win in all competitions but subsequently lost three of their next four games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jordan Brown&#8217;s last minute goal gave them a 1-0 win over Barnsley but one point from the next three games has brought the curtain down on Bruce&#8217;s 13th managerial appointment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bruce enjoyed a strong start at Bloomfield Road, with four wins and a draw from his first five&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-179379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}