Jake Livermore has let himself and everyone down, says Steve Bruce

• Hull midfielder suspended pending B sample after positive test for cocaine
• ‘Being tarnished with that is awful and he’ll have to live with consequences’

Steve Bruce has laid his feelings bare over Jake Livermore’s positive test for cocaine, saying that the Hull City midfielder has tarnished himself and will have to live with the consequences. The Hull manager watched his team lose 2-0 at Tottenham Hotspur to leave themselves in serious danger relegation from the Premier League, but the subject of Livermore dominated the post-match discussion.

Bruce said that Livermore was in a dark place and he described the conversation he had with him on Wednesday, when he broke the news of the failed test, as the most difficult he had ever had with a player. Livermore has been suspended by the Football Association and, in turn, by Hull and he faces a ban of up to two years.

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