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Hull City manager Steve Bruce says Swansea are a "model" club for smaller Premier League sides, ahead of their match at the Liberty Stadium on Saturday.

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SOUNDBITE (English) Steve Bruce, Hull City manager (on the example Swansea set for other smaller Premier League clubs):

"Yeah, they're a model for all the smaller clubs over the last eight, ten years whenever they've been in the Premier League. They've had a philosophy of their own, they've gone down a route which is quite unique and you have to say fair play to the manager who have managed them and of course the chairman for his vision of what they have done. And for all the smaller clubs in the Premier League to be sitting where they are, the players they've brought in and the players they've sold over the years, then you have to pay them the highest compliment and if we can... if we can... make a fist of it like they can then, then we'll all be delighted here.

"It's the part of the season where you want to be in good form and you want to be playing well. And over the last few weeks we've played well, haven't maybe got the results we would like but I've been very, very pleased by the way we've played so that bears well."