Former West Ham United manager Sam Allardyce has taken a thinly veiled swipe at the club’s fanbase, criticising their expectations and the notion of a “West Ham Way”.
The rotund one, known for his “direct style”, expressed his frustration with the club’s supporters during an interview with Kevin Nolan. Allardyce questioned the concept of a specific “West Ham Way” of playing football, suggesting that fans simply wanted to see a change from the previous regime under David Moyes.
The comments come as West Ham embark on a new era under manager Julen Lopetegui, with the club having made significant investments in the transfer market. The Hammers are aiming to challenge for European places this season, and Allardyce’s criticism highlights the pressure and expectations surrounding the club.
Being charitable, the chubby ones tenure at West Ham was ultimately unsuccessful, but the Irons have since made significant strides. The appointment of Lopetegui and the subsequent transfer activity suggest a clear ambition to establish the club as a consistent force in the Premier League.
Perhaps Allardyce will change his tune when he sees how we have done at the end of the season?
Somehow, I doubt it …
Allardyce is an irrelevant fossil and should be roundly ignored.
Lets be honest, most of us Hammers fans these days, especially the ones under fifty, don’t really go on about a special “West Ham Way”. I’ve heard it more from pundits moaning than I’ve heard it from actual fans.
I’m in my fifties and still believing eve there is a way, but it’s more a general style, that has to be tied up with effort. I’m looking forward to this season, first in a while.
Giving 100% with a bit of flare don’t give up and passionate that’s what I was told as a boy
Exactly… it’s really not a difficult concept to grasp… but BFS, Moyes, the punderati in general don’t actually want to ….
When all is said and done, who gives a fish’s fart what Sam Allardyce has to say? He is entitled to his opinion however myopic and nothing he says will make the slightest difference to any of us.
I think summing it up would be entertaining football, rather than ONE “way”. The Rio days were entertaining- not always the best form, but it was fun. We’ve had it, at times. I think we’ll see it this season. COYI
Allardyce like Moyes last week comes out with this stuff to keep a profile and they have mates in the media who give them a platform to come out and talk about themselves and have irrelevant opinions. A lot of it is down to them all lookng out for one another – it’s a big game. At the end of the day the football moves on and hardly anyone will pay special notice to a manager who left West Ham 9 years ago.
Was it that long ago? Time does go quickly
Not long enough ! Like Moyes, he made watching West Ham feel like a duty rather than a pleasure
Fat Sam was a negative and clueless throwback manager ..
He just likes the sound of his own voice and that is his Achilles heel and was his undoing in that newspaper sting which lost him the best job in football , with England after only just being appointed . Couldn’t keep his gob shut !🤷🏽♂️
Why couldn’t he be positive about new manager and the best transfer window we’ve had and quality squad to now push on ⚒️
Remind me of his tenure as England manager?
Nope… stones and glass houses.
The man that said Trevor brooking shouldn’t have been able to manage us as he didn’t have a coaching badge says a lot for me . Greedy, useless , arrogant, vulgar , I’m bored now as I was watching his s@ brand of football
Well said mate
The West Ham way thing came from Ron Greenwood but his teams weren’t always winning games. They used to lose a lot too.
I just get cold shivers thinking back to Zola and Grant playing “attractive” football and us then getting relegated. I am eternally grateful to Moyes bringing us success and beating big clubs even last year (except bloody Newcastle) but even appreciative me had had enough of watching that approach. Last night showed some promise in viewing enjoyability. But we can’t be too harsh on Big Sam, he got us up and kept us up and away of relegation, and although it wasn’t Brasil 82 it wasn’t as bad viewing as those 4+ goal gubbings we got last year. But still, he’s an opinionated gum chewer pillock who thinks he is gods gift and is even dodgier than Our ‘Arry. Good job he didn’t get made England manager. Oh hold on…
Sam Allardyce. Is a self obsessed irrelevant.
He is to international football management what Liz Truss is to being a successful prime minister. And to league football management the a cure for insomnia. No surprise all people like him and Moyes can do is try and boost their ego with stupid interviews. Why have chairman not been beating at their doors with job offers
Allardyce, and all the “what is the West Ham way” brigade are wealthy beyond the average football fan’s dreams. The cost of a season ticket to them is nothing but for the common football fan to dare want for some entertainment for their genuinely hard earned makes them laugh. They should be ashamed but what can you expect from them? The likes of Allardyce can barely string a couple of interesting sentences together.
Big Fat Sam wouldn’t know that “The West Ham Way” was simply about playing football skilfully to attack at every opportunity.
BFS built a career on “hoofball” and “respect the point”. Two opposite requisites that he couldn’t ever understand.
I agree with you Len. He would say look at how Bolton played but like Moyes he had some ready made highly skilled players bought for him. It wasn’t due to his coaching.
I’m looking forward to seeing what J Lo can do with our young players once they’ve reached some maturity through their loans and are ready to replace some of the older existing players that need to be moved out.
Amazing his still talking about West Ham , move on Sam your starting to sound sour.
Living rent free in his head.
To be fair Len, it’s been a while since we have played like that.
Brief spells under Redknapp, Pardew tried to buy in to it too and there was a time when played decent football under Allardyce but they have been fleeting moments over the last 40 years.
I honestly am not sure we will see it this season but as long as we can sure up the defence, we might get the results more often than not.
Unfortunately, in this day and age, it is about results although I would prefer us to just play out and out attacking football but too often, our managers just aren’t those type to play like that.
Clearly his exit from West Ham is still affecting him mentally . Sam please get some help from a doctor.
“” “Ultimately unsuccessful” “” what rubbish!! He got us out of a very difficult division at the first attempt and we’ve remained there..we were 6th at Christmas in his last season…when the double Ds decided not to back him. We played some great football with Diafra Sako and Valencia banging in the goals…
Valencia “Banged in” eight goals in fifty four games. The football was painful
Thinking that the keyboard warriors, KIA fanatics and anyone but me groups are forgetting the tremendous job that Sam Allardyce did at our club. Arriving at a place with no heartbeat after Avram Grant dragged us to our lowest depths ever, Sam gave us some hope and relative success on a very limited budget.
Also, take a look at the ‘England Way’ after he was hounded out of the England manager’s seat. The twits that oversaw his appointment, saved their own skins after his resignation, then appointed the nobody from their U21s to steady the ship, still draw their money from the successful business that is England. Having eventually lost the mastermind of our National team (he should have been given another nine years to improve at the rate he was going) the ‘powers that be’ have now gone for more continuity, earning their salaries, by the appointment of the U21s manager to the big job. No doubt we should give the new bloke, who will earn the right to be taken on in a permanent capacity, at least nine years to fulfill our ambitions.
If Sam Allardyce had been given some sound backing, England would have won two World Cups and a couple of Euros too.
Let us all hope that we can talk about West Ham football in the 21st Century rather than pontificate about ‘West Ham Way’ and ‘Academy of Football’. Be proud of the past but live for today.
COYI
This is a parody right?
🦻🏻🖐🏻
He is only repeating what he has said before.
I know we won a trophy under Moyes but I actually preferred our football, sometimes, under Allardyce compared to Moyes and a few before him too.
He just needs to realise, like Moyes, that their somewhat conservative style of football isn’t for many.
Calling him ‘the chubby one’ simply gives the impression that perhaps he had a point.