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Fact is also that the cunts were trying to sell us a few months back.

I don't understand the clobber for a young manager? At most, he will last 5 years. There is no Ferguson out their. A successful manager is what we need, a hungry manager.

As I think Madrid will still go through I will be supporting that gobshite Mourinho for one night only. God-speed you horrible twat.

It was done over the phone today. All very sudden. I think that there may be something in his family life possibly as the statement said. You wouldn't sack someone like that over the phone surely?

Is it worth defiling the stadium? For the sake of what i'd hazard a guess at being a minute amount in terms of revenue. It's just the most glaring option if you were going to bolster revenue, which to me is worrying. If you asked a 15 year old that they would come up with that idea. We need innovation.

Big screens are being installed at Anfield soon apparently. I know all this 'we have to move with the times' stuff gets floated around but surely, the revenue that comes from some anonymous advertiser at half time is not worth it? I know Ayre and Co have sat round and spoke in cryptic corporate language and came up with the most obvious idea in the world with the giant screen, but if they had anything about them the focus wouldn't be on putting screens in Anfield. It would be on a marketing plan that utilises the club's standing across the world. Planning Application Search A little part of football dies each day.

There's also one in Huyton village.

Sick of bad gobshites having a go. Nobody has a clue what went on during Rafa's tenure. Half-mangled rumours seem to trickle down and people, like Ant, form opinions on individuals from these rumours. We know things went wrong towards the end under Rafa, as happens with the majority of manager jobs. But the vitrol aimed towards a European Cup winning manager is a disgrace.

Suarez not playing today.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain GOD- John Lennon (1970) - YouTube

Stevies taking the piss out of the blueshite their? I'm the Daddy haha

Seems a lovely website. Here are some quotes from your moderators: Under the thread title 'Liverpool potentially prevented Everton from winning the European cup' Shogun Think of what Man Utd have achieved in the premier league era... if it wasn't for liverpool, that would be us Rugby Toffee We had the best team by far in Europe at that time. I for one honestly believe we would have won the European Cup. Those days are long gone and yes I am a bitter Evertonian and do blame the wall pushing Kopites

Never-say-die John Terry ignores brickbats and does what he does best | Football | The Guardian That is a fucking joke. 'Heroic leader' Kim John Il

Thanks for the reply. I'm still lost however. The FA won't need this 'evidence' if Suarez has admitted saying 'Negrito' or whatever he's said. The evidence is right their. Suarez has admitted saying it. Now, I believe the FA are completely wrong to charge him as the term was not used in a racist manner and the term itself is not racist. That's just the FA being fools. But I don't understand the argument that there was no other witnesses as Suarez has admitted using the term.

First of all, i'm completely behind Suarez. But I don't understand people saying 'Where is the evidence?' because hasn't Suarez admitted using 'Negrito' or some other word? I'm not saying the term is racist at all, i'm just wondering is that what allows the FA to justify their verdict without any secondary evidence?

Why is everyone arsed now? What about the other 66 years we haven't had a poppy on the England shirt. DERP DERP England tabloid Journos

Is it me or has all the build up been about United? Sky punishing us for speaking out?

'Oh look at me, I don't respect Kenny' You fucking fairy.

Fuck off you utter fucking cunt.

Prosecutors drop charges.

I don't agree with the mass criticism, I think we've looked alright. Saying that, we could certainly up our game. I think the team still look short of full fitness. Hopefully the engine will not go in the second half.

Hahahaha, another one from an interview in the Telegraph regarding his leaving of Bolton. "That was it. I went home and said to [my wife] Lynne, 'That’s me finished’. She didn’t believe me, nobody believed but, believe you me, when Sam makes his mind up, there is no turning back. I tried to stay loyal. I had to keep it quiet at that particular time because of my love for the club.”

Sam really is a comic genius. I find it hard to distinguish between him and his Twitter account. Of all the places in England, Canary Wharf is perhaps the last one you might expect Sam Allardyce, "Big Sam" himself, to have made his home, three months shy of his 57th birthday. But he loves it there especially, he says, his apartment, where a straight-talking Black Country lad who made his name in Lancashire lives next door to investment bankers. It is 10 years since Allardyce first won promotion to the Premier League with Bolton Wanderers. It is 20 years this summer since he launched his management career at Limerick with a priest for a chairman and a transfer kitty raised by shaking a tin around local pubs. It is 30 years since he last decamped to London, as a player signed for £90,000 by Millwall. But the less said of that the better given Allardyce is now in charge at West Ham United. He got to know Canary Wharf when Bolton Wanderers played away at West Ham and Charlton Athletic and is a regular in the Italian restaurant where we meet. As usual the story Allardyce has to tell is full of all the stuff that makes football interesting: transfer coups, billionaire owners, brutal sackings and the whiff of betrayal from those around him. But most of all it is about taking on the challenge of restoring West Ham to the Premier League just two years before they are scheduled to move into the Olympic Stadium with a 60,000-capacity. He takes great pride in having built a Bolton Wanderers team that achieved things the club had never done before (qualify for Europe) and he would like to do the same at West Ham, starting against Cardiff City in the Championship tomorrow. Sacked by Mike Ashley at Newcastle and then again at Blackburn Rovers last year by the Venkys Group when they bought that club, does it depress him, being back in the Championship? "It doesn't depress me, because there are times in life when you take the chance to go and do better," he says. "And it went horribly wrong for me at [Newcastle]. But I sit comfortably with it because it was through no fault of my own." Confidence is not something Allardyce lacks. Not now after the long struggle up through the hierarchy with Blackpool and Notts County to Bolton and certainly not since he established himself over nine years as a Premier League manager. And confidence is exactly what a beleaguered West Ham needed after last season's dismal relegation. "It is a different challenge," he says. "It's not about trying to survive in the Premier League. It's about winning. A lot of the Premier League is just about surviving, for the money, and not about winning. I'm a winner and it will be exciting to try to win something this season. "I'm me and I run a football club based on my structure, my model. My model has been developed over many years and I know that model works if everyone supports it. I have to get everyone believing in the expertise I own in that particular area. People will always question you in this job but I have the answers to make them understand what I am doing. The most important thing is to make West Ham believe they are winners. The team on the field are paid to win. They are not paid to play football and see how it goes. They are paid to win, in this case in a marathon season of 46 games." He has signed Abdoulaye Faye, Joey O'Brien and Matt Taylor already and you would not bet against El-Hadji Diouf, another player from his time at Bolton and Blackburn, pitching up at the Boleyn Ground. But it was the signing of Kevin Nolan from Newcastle that caught the eye, especially as Allardyce had persuaded him to drop down a division. "Kevin felt no loyalty to Newcastle United for what he had done there. We are a people business. Our understanding is something we built because he was a young lad when I came in to Bolton. I was a younger manager totally obsessed with making Bolton Wanderers a successful club. All those values he has taken away with him, but when he sought some loyalty back [at Newcastle United] it wasn't there. "If you take a footballer for granted you will find that he will not be very happy and he will do one of two things. He will either leave or he just won't be as committed as he was before. There was a tremendous commitment from him. That's the element that's most exciting for me. It is what he is going to demand from the players and making sure we get out the division at the first time of asking. He has just experienced it at Newcastle. They got 102 points and he scored 17 goals [in their Championship winning season, 2009-2010]. "So when he's telling [West Ham team-mates] what it takes to get promoted, how are they going to argue with him? Carlton Cole can't argue with him. Scott Parker can't argue with him. Robert Green can't argue with him. "Kevin can say to them, 'To get out of this league we are going to have to do this and if you don't do it you're going to get a shock. You will find out it ain't so easy'. That's one of the big pluses for me." Allardyce has fought to keep on most of the staff at West Ham – "highly qualified, and in the right areas" – who he feels are more crucial than ever to keeping his players strong and focused over a gruelling 46-game season. He expects a lot of his staff and they tend to feel loyalty back to him. Which brings us to the uncomfortable question of Steve Kean, his successor at Blackburn. Allardyce had taken Kean on at Blackburn when he was an out-of-work coach. Kean was given the manager's job the day that Allardyce was sacked by Venkys. Venkys were advised by the TV rights group Kentaro, whose affiliate company also happened to have Kean as a client. So how will Allardyce feel when he next encounters Kean on a touchline? "I would say the thing is firmly in Steve Kean's court. Only he knows when he wakes up and looks in the mirror. He spoke to me once and I think that since then we have never spoken. [That was] the day I left. I rang him and said 'I've been sacked'. That was it." Does Allardyce think Kean knew he was about to get the job? "He had to have, didn't he, really," he says. "They were sacking Neil McDonald [Allardyce's No 2] at the same time as me so I was saying 'Why? Why are you sacking him? Neil needs to take over. He's been a manager. If you don't like Sam Allardyce's face, fair enough but here's the man.'" Pushed on what really happened at Blackburn behind the scenes, he said: "You know the answers to that. I can't repeat it. "They [the Walker family trust] were desperate to sell the club for many, many years. My satisfaction at Blackburn was that I created so much interest in Blackburn. I know it sounds like I'm blowing my own trumpet but I might as well. Jose Mourinho does it all the time and everyone fucking loves him, so why shouldn't I? :lol: "I created such a vibrant football club that there were four or five [groups] who wanted to buy it having never previously shown any interest. Based on the fact that I was producing profit with results. It wasn't the best – Arsenal's profit ratio is so massive and obviously Manchester United sold [Cristiano] Ronaldo for £80m – but our profit ratio was fantastic. "The year we finished 10th [2009-2010, his only full season] we made a profit rather than a deficit having [previously] kept them in the Premier League. It was the same at Bolton. When I left Bolton I made a net profit after eight years. That was not even including Nicolas [Anelka] because I left before he was sold." And so it starts again, this time at a club that inspires great loyalty in its support despite the absence of any sustained success since the 1960s and no top-flight league title in their history. West Ham is a club for the incurably romantic and in that sense Allardyce fits right in because, as befits his nickname, he does like to think big. "This team have to be ready to move and create a new history. To remember the past but to have people talking about the current time. Which is what people talked about at Bolton with the new Reebok [stadium] legacy. It was not just about Nat Lofthouse. Now, the kids will talk about Anelka, Djorkaeff, Hierro, Campo, Okocha, Candela, Speed, Gardner. It's a modern day legacy.No one finished higher on a consistent basis than we did. If you look at the difficulties in our time compared to [the 1950s side], it was a greater achievement. "So creating the new modern day history, for me has to go with the new stadium and not forgetting Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters. Not forget Alvin Martin or Tony Gale from the time when I played – they might not have won anything but it's the highest they have been since – and look to create a new modern day history." These are strong opinions, and not everyone will agree with Allardyce but the man is past caring about that. He wants to be successful. So it is with some trepidation that the subject is broached of his alter ego, a satirical Sam Allardyce account on Twitter so popular it has more than 66,000 followers and was the subject of a legal attempt by Allardyce himself to shut it down. It is popular because it captures a commonly-held view of Allardyce with an absurdist twist. It is near the edge but it can be very funny. "I have no idea about Twitter," Allardyce responds until he is persuaded to see the spoof as a back-handed compliment. "Yeah, you've changed my view, that'll do me. Mrs Allardyce reads it a lot. I suppose one day I'll have a look at it. It's a bit like an impressionist doing an impression of you. He might take the piss out of you, but you're happy he's done it." Fair play to Big Sam. He does not always take himself as seriously as some have assumed. And do not doubt his commitment to making West Ham successful. As his alter ego @TheBig_Sam recently tweeted to an aspiring manager seeking advice for his first game "Suit, ear-piece, head full of dreams. Sorted". For the real thing, one imagines tomorrow afternoon will be much the same.

I'm sure I remember a thread about that...

That's fucking ridiculous. Shouldn't the council be doing everything they can to aid us?