Steve Bruce has been ousted as manager of Huddersfield after a disastrous start to the season for the first division side.
Steve Bruce has been ousted as manager of Huddersfield after a disastrous start to the season for the first division side.
The 39-year-old former Manchester United captain paid the price after the Terriers, who narrowly missed out on the play-offs last season, slipped to second from bottom in the division.
"We have mutually agreed that it is in both the club's and Steve's best interests that this amicable agreement has been reached," chairman Barry Rubery said after talks with Bruce.
Reserve team manager Lou Macari will take over in a caretaker capacity for tomorrow night's trip to Sheffield United, the club Bruce left to join Huddersfield in June 1999.
First team coach John Deehan will act as assistant to Macari.
Bruce, who as a player helped steer Manchester United to the league and cup double, has been mentioned as a potential successor to United manager Alex Ferguson. That possibility now seems ruled out.
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