Local Hero
‘SAM Allardyce for England! Yeah, if you want the team to be twinned with Royston Vasey, home to the League of Gentlemen.
Sam and Sven – the dream team |
Allardyce looks uncannily, and unfortunately, like a cross between the comedy shows Herr Lipp and Tubbs Tattsyrup. After Swedish Sven, Big Sam truly is the local candidate.
Oh, come, come, stop clacking your tongue and shaking your head. Bolton Wanderers manager Sam knows the game. If he wants to be the next England manager, hed best toughen up.
During his tenure as the England manager, Graham Taylor had his head plastered all over a turnip on the Suns front page but he never banned the Suns hacks from talking to him or attending press conferences.
What of Big Girls Blouse Sam? When BBC Five Lives egotistical commentator Alan Green commented that Bolton play ugly football that he wouldnt pay to watch, Sam refused to talk to the station or the broadcaster.
I thought Alan Green was a Liverpool fan, but the comments he made dont deserve me talking about them, said Big Sam. I wouldnt want to try to encourage the BBC to keep him employed really. If I make comments, it just fuels the situation and keeps the bubble growing.
So Sam wont comment. Hes bigger than that. And he wont even talk to Five Live, let alone the journalists, as Green surely is, who committed the sin of voicing an opinion.
What happens when Allardyces England start playing like Allardyces Bolton and lump the ball up to the big lads up front? Will we able to criticise?
So as not to offend sensitive Sam, will we have to join the chorus of Sky TVs nodding heads who give blanket praise for anything and everything, issuing aural numbutal to the masses?
And if we do, will Sam refuse to talk to anyone who doesnt see things his way and get behind the lads?
Or will Englands supporters like todays Bolton fans not care at all for the style, so long as we win?
And so long as Sam is local?’
Posted: 9th, February 2006 | In: Reviews Comment | TrackBack | Permalink