Which of the Steve’s will get the boot first?

The pressure mounted on two of the Premier League’s under-performing bosses yesterday.

Blackburn suffered yet another defeat at the hands of Stoke yesterday, which lead for more calls for Steve Kean’s head.

Even worse Steve Bruce’s Sunderland lost 2-1 at home to bottom of the table Wigan, despite dominating most of the match.

First

We haven’t had a Premier League sacking as yet this season. However November is usually a month when chairman and owners tend to get itchy trigger fingers with bosses who are struggling. I think at the moment it’s a straight race between Steve Kean and Steve Bruce to be the first one out the door.

Clueless

Blackburn owners Venkys may be clueless about football but they are getting reminded every week by the fans that Steve Kean is currently not good enough to manage their club. It doesn’t take an expert in football to work that out any casual observer could see that.

Rovers are bottom of the Premier League table, again it doesn’t take a genius to work out that things aren’t going well. The manager has to take a huge slice of blame for the clubs position. I think a more experienced boss could get more of this team.

They have some good players but they just aren’t performing well enough. That usually means there are motivation issues and that’s where the manager earns his money. Steve Kean isn’t doing that at the moment.

Worrying

These are worrying times for Sunderland boss Steve Bruce as well. The Black Cats are currently just two points outside the relegation zone after a terrible defeat at home to struggling Wigan. The defeat wasn’t the most galling thing for Bruce though.

The worse thing for Bruce would have been the fact that his side could have easily been four or five goals up in the first half and didn’t take their chances. Wigan made them pay for that and the Wearside fans certainly let Bruce know how they felt at the end of the game.

Support

There seems to be very few people who want Bruce to stay in his job, apart from Newcastle fans who think he’s doing a great job ruining their rivals!. However amongst his own team fans his support is starting to dwindle.

Also Niall Quinn who was somebody that backed him as chairman is no longer in a position to support him. Sunderland owner Ellis Short may start to think that Steve Bruce isn’t the right man for the job.

Decent

Steve Bruce is a decent manager but he has always been a midtable to lower half manager. A boss that was never likely to take a team into Europe or higher up the table. He is proving that as Sunderland boss. Things have gone seriously wrong at the Stadium of Light.

Not just because of their position in the Premier League but because the club lost strikers like Darren Bent and Asamoah Gyan and haven’t been able to replace them. Sunderland are now depending on players from other positions to score goals.

The signing of Connor Wickham was a questionable one from Bruce. The youngster is talented but he is raw and inexperienced in the top flight. You can’t expect a 18 year-old to score the goals you need to survive in the Premier League.

Bruce also brought in Arsenal striker Nicklas Bendtner on-loan but the Danish striker has struggled to score goals in the North East. The worrying thing for Steve Bruce is that Sunderland had chances yesterday but didn’t take them. His team was just not clinical enough.

Unlikely

Steve Kean’s saving grace at Blackburn is that owners are not football people. They continue to back the Scot despite the team being bottom of the Premier League table. Some of the Rovers performances this season have been terrible.

However, despite the fans feelings towards the Scot and the team struggling, I think its unlikely that the Venkys will sack Steve Kean. It seems like a mystery to everybody why Steve Kean keeps getting the backing of Venkys.

If he was at any other club I think he would have lost his job by now. Kean is so far out of his depth its unbelievable. I feel sorry for Blackburn fans because there is only one direction the club is currently going and that’s down.

Pressure

The pressure is now on Steve Bruce to get results. He said today that he won’t quit the club. However I believe he won’t have to if results continue the way they are. The club are dangerously close to the drop zone and I’m sure Ellis Short is well aware of what that entails. He is currently backing Bruce but for how long?

I believe that Steve Bruce will be the first manager to lose his job. This is based on the fact the Blackburn owners are completely clueless and refuse to sack the bumbling Steve Kean.

Who will be the first Premier League manager to get sacked?