Striker!: No. 1 (Steve Barnes S.)

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Striker Saido Berahino's run without scoring lasted 913 days when he was at Stoke between 2017 and 2019 - that was only over a 48-game period for the player once strongly linked with a move to Tottenham.

Steve Bruce: West Brom appoint ex-Newcastle boss as manager on 18-month deal". BBC Sport. 3 February 2022 . Retrieved 3 February 2022. a b Taylor, Louise (25 February 2011). "Steve Bruce commits to Sunderland with new deal to 2014". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 22 November 2015. All of the midfielder’s caps came in a two-year period while he was at Liverpool, either side of a World Cup finals he had to miss due to a metatarsal injury. Of those nine caps, only one came from the start. Bruce claims April's Barclays Manager of the Month award". Premier League. 14 May 2021 . Retrieved 14 May 2021.

Bruce leaves Hull City by mutual consent". The World Game. Special Broadcasting Service . Retrieved 23 July 2016. Despite a career littered with honours, Bruce never won a cap for England Credit: News Group Newspapers Ltd

Bateson, Bill; Sewell, Albert (1992). News of the World Football Annual 1992/93. Harper Collins. ISBN 0-85543-188-1. Lynch, Tony (1995). The Official P.F.A. Footballers Heroes. London: Random House. pp.145–146. ISBN 978-0-09-179135-3. Clarkson, Ian (19 October 2003). "I want my Blues to be a working class act". Sunday Mercury. Birmingham . Retrieved 6 January 2016. The story is so disjointed and the ending happens in a flash with lots of details hastily ties up (or not at all).Striker Steve Mounie managed 44 shots without a goal between April 2018 and January 2019 when he played for Huddersfield - a record in the Premier League. Baker, Mike (23 October 2006). "Bruce wins the latest battle in Birmingham's uncivil war". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 5 January 2016. Curtis, John (24 February 2003). "Morrison seals it for Brummies". Irish Examiner. Cork. Archived from the original on 21 August 2003. ...it's a nice way for me to celebrate my 20th wedding anniversary But these apparent non-sequiturs are of course the whole point: the ghastly, nauseous reality of the ‘ordinary’ – Bruce has been reading his existentialists! Sartre, Kafka, Joyce, Henry Miller: these are Bruce’s literary heroes and mentors. Yet by absorbing the approach of the modernist and postmodernist writers and taking it into new, common-man territory – that of Nationwide First Division football management circa 1999 – Bruce/Barnes democratises these challenging ideas like no other professional sportsman-turned-self-published novelist based in the north east of England of the last thirty years. The following extract, in which Bruce/Barnes faces the prospect of being shot, succinctly encapsulates the ethos: