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2012
02.22

Why Steve Bruce Would Be Unwise To Take The Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club Job.

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Why Steve Bruce Would Be Unwise To Take The Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club Job.

Jonathan Stuart-Brown for Save The British Film Industry.

Steve Bruce is a very decent, honest, moral human being. He is a credit to his family and to his professions. He was an outstanding Manchester United defender and crucial to the foundation of their twenty year dominance of British football. He has been a successful manager relative to the resources he has been given and all clubs he managed -with one temporary exception- are now lower in the leagues than when he was at the helm. He has never been given a successful well resourced club. With patience, he might get one. He could bide his time by writing another novel, and indeed wrote three in the 1990s. He could even try getting a film made on one of his three novels.

What has Bruce done to deserve Wolves at the moment ? It is a job to avoid. At least at the moment.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2105216/Steve-Bruce-major-contender-Wolves-job.html

Wolves have a Chairman who built up a fortune of £350 million from property development, but he sadly has not got the levels of finance needed for a mid-table Premiership Club in 2012. These days multi-billionaires only need apply.

Steve Morgan has got the resources for a top six Championship team, and this is where Wolves are headed. However, the fans will not accept this after three years with the big boys. Moreover, they have form. There were not 28 000 fans following Wolves when they were in Division Four. Only 2000. They will vote with their pocketbooks if Wolves have a poor year in The Championship. If Wolves season ticket fans have no hope of a derby against arch-rivals West Bromwich Albion – by dint of being in different leagues – then they will pick and choose games. The revenues in the present West Midlands climate can dry up fast.

Meanwhile, Steve Morgan has invested far more in property developing his stadium than on the team. He may soon have the only 50 000 capacity stadium in the lower leagues. Imagine 2000 to 5000 fans in such a big stadium.

Morgan could – and in our view should – consider putting a film and tv studio for hire alongside the football club to increase the company revenues, and trade on the goodwill created by the films and tv created by producers within his complex. It can add glamour to the football club and attract in blue riband sponsorship deals. It can regenerate the local and regional economy.

But such thoughts even hand delivered to Chairman and CEO do not even get an acknowledgement.

Steve Bruce was interviewed by the club on Friday but as of this morning, reports circulate in credible media, he had not heard back from the club.

Steve Bruce will not be given the resources essential to guarantee Premiership survival, and the fans will accept nothing less.

He can write another mystery thriller, try to get those he has written made into a tv/film feature, be very busy with punditry at top quality football matches.

A big job – worthy of his talent and integrity – will come up. One with adequate resources. A club like Spurs, Everton, Arsenal, QPR, Fulham, even Chelsea, may come up once Harry Rednapp becomes England boss setting off the managers’ merry-go-round.

Worst case will be something like West Bromwich Albion. Although only on a par with arch rivals Wolves, their Premiership status is not in doubt.

Steve Bruce for Aston Villa might also be on the cards.

It is a huge shame no soccer club has considered building an Elstree Studios – a mere 9 acres – next to their stadiums. The movies, Hollywood stars, and top TV programmes made there – even with producers just hiring their facilities – would bless their core merchandising revenues.

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http://www.wolves.co.uk/page/Welcome