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STEVE BRUCE has revealed he hosted a party for all the Manchester United players after they clinched the Premier League title in 1993.The Red Devils sealed their first league crown under Sir Alex Ferguson 30 years ago.
Steve Bruce and Bryan Robson lifted the Premier League title in 1993Credit: Getty
It was Manchester United’s first league title for 26 yearsCredit: Getty
Bruce, 62, wore the captain’s armband for much of the season as club skipper Bryan Robson was left sidelined with injury.
But the pair lifted the Premier League trophy together at Old Trafford in what was Man Utd’s first league title since 1967.
And Bruce has now spoken about the scenes after the triumph, confirming England captain Robson led the clean-up the following morning.
Speaking to The Athletic he said: “We had a great time and it was a great time.
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(L-R) Gary Pallister, Bruce and Robson 21 years on from their 1993 title triumphCredit: Getty – Contributor
“There was so much pressure on us. Man United not being champions for 26 years… incredible.
“My neighbours came to the party — Janice and Phil from across the road. They brought a bottle and joined right in.
“Everyone brought drinks, it was spontaneous. There were probably 60 at the party. Every player came.
“I went to bed at two, maybe three. I was woken up when I heard this clinking noise — bottles being put away. I thought, ‘Surely someone is still not at it’.
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“I went downstairs. It was 7am. Bryan Robson, the captain of England no less, was tidying up with his wife Denise. Robbo was mopping, Denise doing the dishes.
“They’d slept in the spare room, though I’m not sure they went to bed. I need to ask them.”
Bruce would go on to win two more Premier League titles with Man Utd before departing in 1996.
But Robson left two years earlier in 1994 after United’s second successive league triumph.
Meanwhile, head coach Ferguson finished his 27 years in charge at Old Trafford with an astonishing 13 Premier League titles.
Man Utd have won 12 league titles since their 1993 gloryCredit: News Group Newspapers Ltd More

ASK AI to design the exact opposite of Erling Haaland and Tom “Pongo” Waring might be the result.Except for a magical figure, achieved 92 years apart, bonding the supreme lean machine with a Merseysider nicknamed after a dopey dog.
Tom ‘Pongo’ Waring, left, is here beaten to a header by Tottenham full-back Fred Channell amid his golden spell at Aston Villa from 1928-35Credit: PA
Villa legend Waring also played for Tranmere, Wolves, Barnsley and AccringtonCredit: Rex
The Birkenhead-born striker netted four goals in five games for EnglandCredit: Rex
Aston Villa legend Waring was the last player before the Manchester City superstar to bag 50 club goals in a top-flight season.
But  modern-day monsters like the Norwegian hero might shudder if they heard of Waring’s lifestyle.
The Times claim he’d hunt for any beer left on the terraces when he turned up for training on Mondays.
And he was more down to earth than down the gym.
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Such was his rapport with fans, 23,000 watched his debut for Villa RESERVES after he signed for £4,700 from Tranmere in 1928.
Born in Birkenhead – as was Everton’s scoring sensation Dixie Dean – Waring even combined football with work for the The Hercules Motor and Cycle Company in Aston.
He was famously scared of no-one and never doubted his ability – understandably for someone on his mighty club wages of… 30 shillings a week!
Waring told Arsenal boss Herbert Chapman in 1931: “You’d like to buy me, Herbert, wouldn’t you? I am better than any of your lot.”
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And when his own Villa manager lambasted him for failing to help out his midfield, he responded: “If you want me to do two jobs you can pay me 60 shillings a game.”
The club’s then-skipper Billy Walker wrote in his autobiography: “There were no rules for Pongo.
“Nobody knew what time he would turn up for training—ten o’clock, eleven o’clock, twelve o’clock.”
And in the days well before energy drinks perhaps Pongo was ahead of his time – at least if you interpret another Walker anecdote extremely generously.
The ex-England inside forward revealed Waring would “go round all the refreshment bars on the ground and finish off the lemonade” left by customers.
Pongo’s half-century of goals came in 1930-31, with 49 in the old First Division when Villa were runners-up to Arsenal and one in the FA Cup.
In contrast, Haaland has notched 34 Premier League goals, plus three in the FA Cup, one in the EFL and 12 in the Champions League… with potentially nine more games to come.
Waring finished with 167 goals in all for Villa from 1928-35, also netting four in five matches for England.
And whatever other goal records Haaland goes on to achieve in England it’s unlikely he’ll do it with such an array of clubs as Pongo.
Those included Barnsley, Wolves, Accrington Stanley, Bath City, Graysons, Birkenhead Docks, Harrowby, New Brighton and Ellesmere Port Town.
And when he died aged 74 in December 1980, his ashes were scattered in Villa’s Holte End goalmouth before a game with Stoke City.
Fellow goal machine Erling Haaland could hardly be more different to Waring, as he dedicates himself to fitness and a special dietCredit: Reuters
In those days jumpers weren’t just for goalposts in the park, as shown by free-scoring centre-forward Waring ahead of a clash with West HamCredit: Alamy
Waring feared no-one but was popular with fans for being down to earthCredit: Getty
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