Bob Bradley could not escape the stigma against a US coach in British football


The former USA coach failed to hit upon a consistent formula at Swansea City but his status as an outsider in the Premier League hastened his downfall

Bob Bradley had little reason to know how quickly he would be proved right when ruminating, at his first press conference as Swansea City manager, upon the modus operandi of his new bosses.

“I don’t think they’d have got where they are by making decisions with the heart,” Bradley said of the club’s owners, Steve Kaplan and Jason Levien. And while on this occasion he was second-guessing the logic of his own appointment, it would be less than three months before he discovered just how harsh the Premier League can be.

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