Sam Allardyce. Fat headed egotistical knobhead.

He apparently had 'no choice' with his team selection (9 changes, 5 kids 3 kids on debut) today at Forest in the FA Cup because they are playing Man City in the League Cup Semi Final on Wednesday because the midweek opposition played yesterday.

They lost 5-0 by the way.

Man City either way will probably smash them, that was a tough game today, on paper best XI v best XI a tough one to call. I have no idea how getting slaughtered prepares a club better for a perceived 'bigger' game. They are 2nd bottom of the Premiership so the preferred team are hardly used to winning so surely it would be better for the best team to win at a decent Forest team to give them a bit of confidence going into the week ahead?

He is the most arrogant over hyped self promoting twat football has ever seen and when I say 'football' it is something his teams could never be accused of.

Oh and get this, he is the 12th highest paid manager in the WORLD nearly £3,000,000 a year.

I'm not defending him here but he also has 7, of which 4 are long term injuries to compete with. He should have played his strongest team injuries apart. Fact he left out Jaaskelainen says he didn't. Why does a keeper need resting ??

Because in reality he knows his side are shit, and making 9 changes is an excuse for losing (oh we have bigger priorities, losing most games in the Premiership) rather than having the bottle to put his best side out live on TV who probably would have got beat anyway.

I don't like his brand of football either - amazing that anyone would pay him that amount of money.

I would be utterly devastated if he ever became Pools manager even at League Two level.

Big fat headed blag artist who somehow has convinced people that he worth paying fifty grand a week for the pleasure.

I thought it was disgraceful the lack of respect the fat headed 'lovely lovely person' showed the fa cup and the fans of west ham. They travelled in numbers and were rewarded with there under 21 side. Roy keane summed it up perfectly before a ball was kicked " with Stewart downing as captain a dont. See what chance west ham have today". How right he was. He was the the experienced leader of the team!! Leader downing, fuck me. Once they kicked off it was obvious what would happen.

When 1 down he took off his experienced players and brought in even more kids. Great experience for these, battered 5-0. Yeah well done Sam.

He then said in interview that he had to do it because they played Wednesday and man city had a extra day off. He should IMO be fined for those comments. Moaning about officials making mistakes warrants a fine so what is this. Moaning that you have a semi final in 3 days time. Ridiculous excuse to rob there fans.

Id be over the moon if he's sacked before the semi final.

We need laws in place by the fa regarding number of changes allowed for the fa cup. This needs to happen ASAP and stop ruining the worlds greatest cup competition. Chelsea made 6 changes yet 5 of those were Oscar Willian cole mikel and essien. All 5 are 1st team players. There has to be a new rule put in place. What fat head did yday was disgraceful and the fact is was shown live made it even worse.

well, whilst there are many people around, plenty on here, that want to play with wingers to get crosses into the box for the big bloke, then dinosaurs like allardyce will continue to get jobs.

If you are one of those people, then you are entirely to blame.

Oh, I know, he is great, at keeping teams up.

I reckon it'll cost allardyce his job, the irony of resting players so they are ready for wednesday yet i dont think he'll be in charge for it.

Jaskerlino hasn`t played the last few matches, he has preferred the 2nd choice keeper.

He complains at having to play youngsters. It rather puts into context the tremendous progress that has been made at Pools with an average age of just 22. Our youngsters are learning how to play first team football and are adapting incredibly well and learning quickly. Yes they can have off games and perhaps don't have the experience to sort it out when things are going wrong. I know I'd rather have Cooper in charge than Allerdyce.

The fat headed twat is just clutching at straws, he will be the first managerial casualty of 2014.

I don't think I've ever seen the Bunker so much in union together. Anyone not think Allardyce is a fat headed twat should speak now

I dont think i like it, i might go on team sam to get this thread going in proper bunker style.

N lets get humphreys in on it!

I cant fathom why older players would be any better than younger ones at repeatedly booting the ball into orbit anyway.

I thought this was going to be another thread about cyclists.

An ex Pools player was Allerdyce's Head of Physio and Sports Science (or some such new fangled title) at Bolton and Newcastle. He was reportedly on £400k a year at both those clubs Not sure if he's with him at West Ham.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25625553

At first I thought it was a spelling error in the headline..

he subs players whose work rate tails off to what it was at the start of a game. He bases football on Opta stats people passing the info to him during a game. He actually does that, and would take off a potential match winning skilful player because "work rate" drops off... i.e. visible number of runs per minute etc

and he wonders why he is 2nd bottom of the league!!!!

He will get sacked, then some radged chairman will let him have a go somewhere else within the next couple of months.

Aye, and then that new clubs fans will be gutted as the average height of the players increases and the long diagonal ball becomes their main tactic.

But the media will keep on defending him.

Another establishment figure.

To think he was in line for the England job as well. May get it one day.

Aye, he had a lot of support, based on the fact that he looks like a bulldog and he had 'passion' because he shouts a lot and megs his chewy out when his team goes one down.

Which they always do.

Clueless 'lovely lovely person' for me.

Colin Cooper has 20 times more ideas in his head than Allardyce does

that's not even mentioning the football

I thought this was going to be another Operation Yewtree thread.

It's a good job fat head rested all of those players or they might be more than 2-0 after 25 minutes.

This is embarrassing

wey theyve had a shot

that shot alone totally justifies playing the kids at forest

Taylor was his physio at Newcastle and Bolton. Played for Pools on the wing. Used to drink with him in the greenies. Was a
good lad. Retired early from football with bad injury and changed trades at a good time.

Back on topic; I don't like Allardyce, never have done. But 5live made an interesting comment on his selection. They said that he always takes one of the cup competitions seriously, and bins the other. I've little interest in the premiershit, so can't confirm this, but if it's true, it suggests that he's not as bad as the other managers in the premiershit who are only interested in the league and little else.

They are taking this seriously!?

It's like watching Man City play a non league team.

Saw on twitter, someone said it's like playing your Nan of FIFA 14.

I've got a few quid on 4-0... No chance it will stay 4-0

I had over 3.5 in the game and City -3

Safe to say I'm smirking a bit now.

Even more now it's 5-0

If West Ham aren't careful here the second leg could be a bit pointless.

Good job he rested all them players or it could of been 10

Still could be 10

Surely this is the final nail in the fat not nice people coffin..

10 goals conceded in the last 2 games.... so far

Why are City going easy on them?

They've taken off two of the best players in the World (Toure & Silva) for that ropey ponytailed German centre back and some kid who's that much of a regular he's wearing number 64.

I wanted 8 or 9 nil then to see his fat head.

West Ham fans as one "Fack off Sam Allardyce Fack off Sam Allardyce"

6-0.. Fantastic result!

I reckon fat head out and replaced with Arry

Someone please put up the pic. of both Managers from Sky's live photos....Sam with his hood up in the rain!!!!

Dzeko has just said on Sky it is not easy to win 5-0, only to be corrected that they won 6-0. He scored the sixth goal as well.

You know you're shite when the opposition lose count.

That's like moving out of Fred and Rose West's house and checking into the Bates Motel.

I bet the owners are praying he resigns.. Must be a canny wedge to sack him based on this. He signed a 2 year deal last May as well

I feel a bit sorry for Sam, like he said before he's more suited to a bigger club like Madrid or Milan

Allardyce is a 'lovely lovely person' no doubt but he was a ground breaking manager a few years back and really embraced technology, also some very good ex players speak very highly of him, Djorkaeff for example
Loves himself though