BRUCE WILL NOT WALK AWAY

STEVE BRUCE says bossing Newcastle will hopefully be his last job as a manager – because it is so important to him.

He said: “I’ve waited my whole life for an opportunity like this. Being from here,tyneside, I regard it, in management anyway, as the pinnacle.

Certainly I might not have another one (manager’s job) and I will try my utmost under difficult circumstances.”

Bruce (left) is in the eye of the storm after his side lost to Sheffield United last week but insists he is no quitter.

He added: “I was bang average as a player but got the best out of myself.the same is true in management.”