Guest bimpy474 Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 That isn't actually a real head, its a medicine ball surely ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 There, got rid of that unsightly cold-sore: I also got rid of the ugly infection: http://i.imgur.com/Ek1HT.png Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EthiGeordie Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 I do feel bad they stuck with him.... Sam Allardyce: a good but stubborn manager who must secure promotion for West Ham When you have failed to win trophies for as long as Newcastle United and West Ham, there is perhaps an emphasis on style over substance. Perhaps Sam Allardyce would seem less like a round peg in a square hole if was not so keen to tell everyone is stupid. Allardyce is a manager who believes winning is all that counts; that there are no points awarded for artistic impression, flair or entertainment value. He does not want plaudits for the way his teams play the game, he wants points and he is not afraid to tell people just that – repeatedly. It is a mantra that has served him well at clubs like Bolton and Blackburn, the just glad to be among the elite sides that need to make the most of limited resources and do what they can to level the playing field. The picture was rather different at Newcastle and it is a vista largely shared at West Ham. These are clubs who have a tradition of playing with panache – clubs where fans have pride in the manner in which their team play as a substitute for their persistent failure to live up to other, grander expectations. Allardyce claims he was never given a fair chance at Newcastle and, to an extent, he is right. He was Freddie Shepherd’s final managerial appointment just months before Mike Ashley booted the former chairman out in the summer of 2007. Managers who are not appointed by the owner are always running up hill and Newcastle were mid-table in the Premier League when he was sacked just eight months after he had left Bolton to accept the “big job at a big club” he craved. Newcastle had started well, enjoying their best start to a Premier League season in more than a decade, but when results dipped, Allardyce’s football philosophy became the issue. Significantly, having worked for local paper The Journal during Allardyce’s brief Tyneside tenure, few moaned about his appointment, in fact he was largely welcomed. Newcastle fans had grown tired of the constant near-misses and their flaky reputation. They had tried the Entertainers route under Kevin Keegan and Sir Bobby Robson and fallen short of the standards needed to actually put a silver pot in a dusty trophy cabinet. Allardyce was perceived as a manager who would introduce a steely streak, a manager who would bring winning football and if that meant scrappy 1-0 victories, a new emphasis on defence and set-pieces, it was a price worth paying. Allardyce, though, was too keen to hammer home the point, taking a slightly mocking tone whenever conversation moved towards reflecting on the club’s recent flirts with triumph and the Keegan era in particular. A mistake in a part of the world where Keegan was still hero worshipped and the 1995/6 season run-in meltdown was still lauded, if only for the fact the ride had been an exhilarating experience for a generation of supporters who remembered the dark days. Allardyce implied Newcastle had nothing to be proud of because they had actually failed to win the league. They were losers in the end. True, but he failed to appreciate the context. Newcastle fans had never expected to win the league that season. Three years earlier they had believed they were going to be relegated to the third tier of English football, the culmination of decades of mismanagement and failure. Keegan had completely transformed the football landscape and helped give an entire city its self-esteem back in the process after the dire post-industrial eighties. Allardyce did not stop there. Annoyed by what he perceived as negative reporting of his team’s performances, Allardyce told reporters they were “miserable” because they were stuck in the North-East and wanted to be where the real action was in London or Manchester. Maybe some did, but most were, like the fans most of them used to be, loved the region they called home. North-East people do not have an inferiority complex when it comes to where they live, they are smug about it. It all helped to create an atmosphere where people were waiting for Allardyce to fail and as soon as results dropped, the criticism focused on the manner in which they were achieved. Allardyce responded with typical bullishness. He knew best, he understood the game and he had the success to back it up. The bullet came at the start of January after four league games without a win and an ugly 0-0 draw at Championship side Stoke City in the FA Cup. But it was a 4-1 home defeat to Portsmouth at the start of November, less than four months into his first season, that sowed the seeds of doubt and discontent. Newcastle were ripped to shreds despite all the talk of defence comes first. The players were more interested on what they could do with the ball than worrying about stopping the opposition having it. Allardyce’s approach insisted that nullifying the opposition was always the first priority and it fuelled a negative approach. Ashley, seeking a tonic to the drabness, added insult to Allardyce’s badly-injured ego, he lured Keegan out of retirement to replace him. Allardyce is a good manager, but he is stubborn and highly opinionated. At West Ham, he is suffering many of the same problems, but he is either unable or unwilling to change his philosophy just to pander to an increasingly restless crowd. Ultimately, Allardyce was brought in to do a job – protect the business by making sure of promotion back to the Premier League at the first attempt. He may yet do that and it is premature to believe Allardyce is a busted flush. Go up and he will be vindicated in everything he has done. Fail and he’ll surely be swelling the ranks of the unemployed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17536928 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shak Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Horrible creature, football would be so much better off without anti-football tossers like him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minhosa Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Hate the bastard. Pleased the spammers have been giving him some shit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Hopefully Reading beat them at the weekend. Crank up the pressure on him big style. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Fat headed oaf. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenBartonCentrePartin Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 came in here expecting to read that the porn barons had given him the push. Good to see he's still in a job Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sifu Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Would be funny to see West Ham miss out on automatic promotion. Would be even funnier if they fuck up in the playoffs. All that money.........just wasted! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ujpest doza Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 I love it when he goes on about people not liking him because he keeps beating them when in actual fact he never sets his teams up to beat anyone he always plays for a nil nil draw and if the other team score first he's cattled. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minhosa Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Would be funny to see West Ham miss out on automatic promotion. Would be even funnier if they fuck up in the playoffs. All that money.........just wasted! I think they'd be fucked if that was the case. Their wage bill must be gigantic for that league. I do wonder if the Porn Kings would sustain it themselves in the event of non-promotion. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geordie Ahmed Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Hate the fat turdd It is one thing to have an ego when you are a top manager (Mourinho) BUT when you are shite like him I don't understand where the arrogance comes from Would be brilliant if they failed to get promoted, especially if it means him losing out to Hughton Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Would be funny to see West Ham miss out on automatic promotion. Would be even funnier if they f*** up in the playoffs. All that money.........just wasted! To Chris Hughton too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbandit Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 His me against everyone mentality should get him the next Liverpool job when Dalglish goes back to Goblinland. Hope West Ham stay in the championship forevermore Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bimpy474 Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Hate the bloke and his ego, dreadful man, dreadful manager, dreadful football. Just plain dreadful. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sifu Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Would be funny to see West Ham miss out on automatic promotion. Would be even funnier if they f*** up in the playoffs. All that money.........just wasted! To Chris Hughton too. Just about the icing on the cake. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Roy the Irish Magpie Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Come on Reading, come on Southampton!!! Until next season at least Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Even if he gets them up he'll be sacked within a year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEEJ Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Remember that Hughton spot in the pic of him brandishing a Manager of the Month award? Oh, aye: http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/2456/chrisnf.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMc Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Cracking up reading the previous page. Gerld Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toon Hoser Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 The @TheBig_Sam Twitter account has the occasional flash of brilliance, but it's been mostly dismal flatulence of late, not so bril anymore. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallace Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 I think the following chants suggested in a West Ham forum show what they think of Allardyce and his style of football. we come every week we come every week must be deluded we come every week He's tactics are great he's tactics are great big Sam for England he's tactics are great. It's quarter to four, it's quarter to four, I'm f-ucking bored s-hitless, it's quarter to four he's a short-sighted toad he's a short-sighted toad he thinks we play football or maybe he's just a (unt (oops!!) ...work needed we play on the floor we play on the floor we're west ham united we play on the floor My neck really hurts My neck really hurts Fu(k this hoofball My neck really hurts i wear a neck brace manager says we play ace (unts sponsored by fray bentos just look at his face We play shlt and he lies We play shlt and he liiiies Go manage Wigan They do better pies it's good in row z see it hoofed on to the taaaaall laaaaads heeeead width is extinct now we all shake our heads he does like a pie one must have hit him right iiiiiiiin theeeeeeee eeeeeeeye says we're playing good football just fu(k off and ... (DOH) he's round not square he likes his football in the air toad faced c.unt , toad faced c.unt O fu(kin eck Its off the deck O fu(kin eck I've broken my neck We're launching the ball, we're launching the ball But Maynard and Baldock Aint that fu(king tall. We don't like your style, your hoofball is vile. We pass on the deck, it's good for your neck. We are West Ham, we play on the floor, please Fu(k off in May, whatever the score. You Fat kunt, You Fat kunt, You Fat kunt They've gone in front, bring a striker on u kunt Can't take anymore, u play for a draw Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wormy Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 :lol: West Ham fans have just become a lot more likeable to me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MW Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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