EXCLUSIVE: Fans vent fury over Allardyce outburst
Since we published the news that Big Sam had broken his silence on his Irons departure, ClaretandHugh readers have been telling us what they think of our former manager.
And the stark reality is they’re not impressed!
Fan comments
Here’s a sample reaction to Allardyce’s outburst from infuriated Hammers fans:
oldiron: “Really, what did he expect, 3 wins between Christmas and the seasons end, god he is pathetic if that is a criteria to keep your job. Go away Sam we don’t want to listen to you, you are only making yourself look pathetic . Go and find a team to manage and leave West Ham alone, we will be fine. The more you go on and the more people look at your last 4 months of management you will be lucky to get a job. Be gone and be silent.”
rugbyirons: “I’ve changed my mind. Keep talking Allardyce. The more you say the more you can be seen for what you were. Pathetic.”
RayStewartsRightPeg: “Apparently the Natural History musuem is making space for when the bones of the newly discovered Egosaurus is dug up – although they do suspect it’ll lack a backbone.”
essexclarets: “West Ham being ungrateful? Really? They paid him £3m a year and dared to ask for the team to win…. he knew that he wasn’t going to stay for a long long time. No sh*t Sherlock! Watching the crap dished up since last xmas you could see he didn’t give a toss anymore.”
Michael Miller: “It just reinforces what I always thought of BFS – a nasty bit of work, no class, out of touch, self-obsessed, egotistical, hypocritical, – I could go on…”
HamburgHammer: “Hard to find a more self-promoting, egotistical, deluded, arrogant and bitter manager out there. Things are never his fault, it’s always other people or circumstances. Why did he leave Bolton ? Well, he told us because that club didn’t match his ambition. So now his latest club had ambition, but failed to put that in his job description apparently and didn’t buy Messi for him to achieve that ambition. Last year we were reminded by those defending and supporting Allardyce that we should be grateful for him helping to stabilise our club. Which I did in the end despite me still feeling very relieved he’s gone. After reading all that stuff even my sense of gratitude stats to dissolve. No matter what happens at our club, even after leaving our club Allardyce will continue to linger: If we do well this season, it’ll all be because of his fantastic groundwork he did in the last four years, leaving Bilic such a brilliant team. If things don’t go so well, it’ll be because Allardyce is no longer with us.”
RayStewartsRightPeg: “I get tired of him banging on about he got promoted as asked. Actually, despite arguably the best squad in the Championship and one of the best transfer budgets, he only managed to luckily scrape through via the Play Offs. Look at the two managers who did better than him in the Championship that sacked – both sacked within months in the PL, one now out of work and the other plying his talents in League 1. Lets not even mention Holloway and Blackpool. I bet none of that is included on his CV!”
essexclarets: “If he wants to see someone who is ungrateful, he should look in a mirror. He was paid £12 million in the 4 years he was manager, what did he really think paying him that amount of money was for..? We were the worst team in the PL since xmas last season & only because we had a 4 game winning run the year before that we didn’t get relegated then.”
As you can imagine, there’s a lot more vitriol from where these came from. So please take a look at the comments section of our news and whispers articles.
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We’d love to know what you think.