Steve Bruce: "We Behaved Like Children"

The Hull City manager had a touchline bust up with Sunderland boss Gus Poyet last night.

Published 4th Mar 2015

Hull City's Steve Bruce admitted he and Sunderland manager Gus Poyet behaved like children as they had a touchline bust up during their sides' 1-1 Premier League draw last night.

Poyet flew into a rage on the touchline, booted a cooler box and then had to be physically separated from Steve Bruce.

They had to be separated by the officials and Bruce says it was all a bit embarrassing.

But the two managers refused be drawn on the incident post match. Steve Bruce told Viking FM:

"Why he has come over to myself I don't really know what I was supposed to have done but these things do happen in the heat of the moment, it was grown men acting like a couple of children but there you have it these things do happen in big games.

"I think it's only right that I keep it to myself and I will always keep it to myself. It's up to Gus if he wants to reveal why I reacted like some raging idiot then it's up to him. We are grown men who have acted like a couple of children and these things happen and then you look back in the morning and think oh good god."

Meanwhile Poyet said:

"I'm sorry but I'm old fashioned and what happens on the pitch, stays on the pitch. I never come out and cry like a baby so I keep it to myself. Nothing happened, it was football, passion. Read my lips, have a look tonight, read my lips and then we will see who said what."