Bruce attacks Cunningham
Birmingham City manager Steve Bruce has hit out at former skipper Kenny Cunningham after the Irishman's acrimonious departure from the club.
Cunningham hit out at all aspects of the club, from the board of directors and manager Bruce to the lack of organisation and spirit, following his release at the end of the Premiership season.
But Bruce hit back, claiming that Cunningham took the easy route out by criticizing him through the media.
He told the Birmingham Mail: "When you get criticised, and heavily criticised, you have to have a thick skin. But certainly, I was disappointed to say the least that the captain of the club publicly lambasted me and slated everybody in the way he did.
"It smacked to me of sour grapes. I thought I had a relationship whereby if there was a problem or he had an opinion, he would come and seek me out and be a man.
"A man, for me, is somebody who faces you head on and confronts you, not goes behind your back and calls newspaper guys for lunch and gives them his story.
"It upsets me that I made somebody like that captain of this club, and he probably had the best three or four years of his career here.
"With due respect to Millwall and Wimbledon, they are never going to be a patch on this club and for him to captain it, and say the things he did the way he did, shocked and disappointed me.
"Anyone who has come to know Kenny will tell you that if somebody says it's black, he will say it's white. That's his personality. What Kenny got out of it, going to the press like he did, I don't know.
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