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21st October 2016
11:17pm BST
Steve Barnes, manager of Leddersford Town and amateur detective, was the protagonist and also a clever little nod to his own name. You might have missed that such was the writing mastery of Brucie.
It all checked out as far as we were concerned. And it was bloody brilliant.
But then blabbermouth Bruce had to go and spoil things with his stupid honesty.
The Hull defender, who has represented both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland at international level, wrecked everything by admitting that his dad, Manchester United legend and established author, was not the man who had put pen to paper on any of the above novels.
Bruce took to BBC 5 Live to make the infuriatingly heartbreaking revelation that his father had just been asked to use his relatively high profile name to provide some marketability for the titles.
https://twitter.com/5liveSport/status/789546809244864513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Bruce said: "I think he was manager of Huddersfield at the time. And someone approached him and said "I wrote these books, can we put your name to it?
"But no, he can't take credit for writing anything."
Ain't that some bullshit?
