Hull hunt Steve Bruce's successor

Roy Keane, Ryan Giggs, and Michael O’Neill were among the names being linked with the Hull City job after Steve Bruce resigned from the club yesterday.

Bruce, 55, has quit the club just three weeks before the start of the new season following a meeting with the club’s owners, having failed to take training yesterday morning.

Bruce, interviewed on Monday for the England job, which has been handed to Sam Allardyce, is understood to have sought assurances from chairman Assem Allam over the club’s future and player recruitment.