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The Guardian - UK
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Steve Bruce insists West Brom players live close to training – as he stays in Cheshire

Steve Bruce at a West Brom training session this month.
Steve Bruce at a West Brom training session this month. Photograph: Adam Fradgley/West Bromwich Albion FC/Getty Images

Steve Bruce will insist that West Bromwich Albion’s players live or have a second home within an hour of the training ground next season but has explained why he will continue to commute from Cheshire.

Bruce feels the longer journeys made by a number of his players are having a negative impact. West Brom are 13th in the Championship and Bruce had targeted promotion when he took over as manager in early February with the club sixth.

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