England won't get relegated from the World Cup - anticipate two years of The Big Sam delivering the international module here

@richardajkeys
Big Sam is the man then! Excellent. Now we can get our game back - re-discover our English DNA. Be English - not whatever is fashionable.

ein reich, ein volk, ein groß Sam

A Real Brexit Manager

Really looking forward to Ricardo Vaz Te and Mohamed Diame suddenly discovering an English grandmother.

funny, my memory of england's performance at the euros was that it was extremely english and not at all fashionable

http://e0.365dm.com/16/07/16-9/20/stuart-pearce-england_3751275.jpg

lol which satirical site?

Sam Allardyce 'concerned' by Joe Hart situation

Remembering all those times a peturbed tony soprano beats on the barman

No way SNA: Sam Allardyce does not rule out England return for John Terry https://t.co/w4LaTEpYvL By @JamieJackson___ https://t.co/BG5TadjpHD

"I don’t know what the political side might mean, if there is a political"

http://emojipedia-us.s3.amazonaws.com/cache/db/d5/dbd57bcbb3fff7245025a39061012200.png

god ebjt comeback would be delicious

getting myself into an allardycean mindset i can't help but think that terry's legs may not be what they used to be, but his reading of the game can compensate for that, he also has the heart of a lion. reckon he can still do a job

Goalkeepers: Fraser Forster (Southampton), Joe Hart (Manchester City), Tom Heaton (Burnley).

Defenders: Gary Cahill (Chelsea), Nathaniel Clyne (Liverpool), Phil Jagielka (Everton), Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur), Luke Shaw (Manchester United), Chris Smalling (Manchester United), John Stones (Manchester City), Kyle Walker (Tottenham Hotspur).

Midfielders: Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur), Michail Antonio (West Ham United), Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur), Danny Drinkwater (Leicester City), Jordan Henderson (Liverpool), Adam Lallana (Liverpool), Wayne Rooney (Manchester United), Raheem Sterling (Manchester City), Theo Walcott (Arsenal).

Strikers: Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur), Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool), Jamie Vardy (Leicester City).

recall watching antonio at the valley, playing on the left. "don't let him cut inside, he's only got one trick."

tbfttl he did score using that trick, but international defenders ought to have a lot of fun marking him. he's mostly a set-piece threat at top level

Never learn, never change

i'm still gutted he wasnt able to pick steven nzonzi over mark noble, would have been the best ever

"We did have a call, it would have been of interest to me and we did explore it. He’s very good and never got the credit he deserves because of his size.

'Being too big can be a hindrance to a footballer because they think their feet are not as clever and they’re not as mobile or sharp.

‘But [playing for England] was impossible. The issue is dead now.’

The 'too big', a mythical category always considered folklore by experts on the subject until today's events

Allardyce inquiring about the availability of Steven Nzonzi is everything I wanted from this era and more.

Captain Hendo

Big Sam will hand Dier what he considers to be his team’s most pivotal role – as the holding midfielder in front of the back four.

Sam makes no secret of his belief that Dier was born to the job he is giving him. He said: “What a player, eh? Like a Campo or a Hierro. He’s got that vibe.”

eric's got it... jordan's got it.... little cute aaliyah's got it

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3764178/Sam-Allardyce-wants-players-bit-fun-new-England-boss-invites-comedians-training-camp.html

perfect

https://vine.co/v/5ePDJHrAvvg

Small details make a big difference, according to Allardyce. Little things like rebranding around St George’s Park with graphics - including slogans like The Journey Begins Here in the main foyer- and the Three Lions crest on the lifts in the hotel in the Burton HQ.

Allardyce was chatting in the Ron Greenwood Room just after giving a press conference to name his first squad. “The Ron Greenwood Room? All the names here inspire me. I am staying in the Sir Bobby Charlton Suite,” said Allardyce.

“Do you think there might be a Sam Allardyce Suite here one day? I hope so. You never know do you? I suppose it depends on how well I do over the next two years."

"I didn’t call [Barkley and Wilshere], no. I think that I have always been the type of manager who has made the selections.

"You then think about how much time do you spend on the phone? Will he answer the phone, should I leave a message, should I WhatsApp them?"

I love that he actually asked himself whether he thought there might one day be a suite named after him, then answered with modest uncertainty.

So far it's looking like this is going to be every bit as funny as expected.

“Then we’ve got the Club England, which is the business end of what we do before we get to training, then we go down to the facility, two identities where they are can chill out, relax amongst themselves, play table tennis, pool.

Think Sam has a future in the leisure industry.

I don't even care about the results, I just hope he never gets fired from this job.

^^^

he's always been a Sports Science Bro at heart

is it really such a big deal that there's fucking table tennis and a pool in the new big sam modular relaxation unit? didn't they always stay in a fucking hotel? you'd have to assume the fa have tended to break the booking.com bank out for a hotel with at least a small swimming pool?

I don't even care about the results, I just hope he never gets fired from this job.

There really is such an air of Cameron-pig-day-revelation joy to the whole thing. I hope he's manager forever.

i kind of like him. i mean he's obv a bellend but i guess i'm 51 to 49 in favour of him doing really well, if he doesn't do really well i guess i'd like to see him do horrendously badly. i don't want him to go gently into that good night either way.

No fear of that given the job

id love to see big sam do tremendously well as England manager, basically anything shy of a championship

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2016/aug/31/sam-allardyce-england-fa-nuclear-disarmament#img-1

whoops that was just meant to be the image..haven't read the article yet

why would england not pick an england-qualified player for their team based on... his not being english is it? the colour of his skin? feels incredibly post-brexit. don't recall people talking this way when januzaj was supposed to be good.

There was some difference in views on whether Arteta should have been picked for (or rather offered a place with) England a few years ago IIRC, but it seems like a non-issue to me (ie you should pick the best available team, obv).

i am against over-18 residency qualification, it is my Uncool Conservative Belief sorry

just international football wise i mean

tbh i do like how it's just part of sam firmly having his bolton wanderers hat back on though. if he can find mario jardel's english great great nan then i'm on board

never too late to call up manuel almunia as i recall was on the cards for a while

Alex McCarthy replaces Fraser Forster in England squad

members-only club england at its finest

wait

the one who played at the valley the other day for southampton u23s and who didn't save a penalty in the shootout

A whole 10 league appearances in the last two seasons, England's future is in safe hands.

"Winning is what we want. If the nation thinks that's the only thing we can have to make us feel better, we'll try. But personally, if we get a draw from the most difficult game of the group, I'll be happy."

expectation management at its finest

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CteBgJTXgAAyDKY.jpg

aaaarrrrrrrghhhhhhhh

at a branch of Pret a Manger in west London, on August 25, Hasselbaink discussed terms as he sipped a cup of green tea

EXCLUSIVE CHINESE INCURSION INTO THE EFL

Meanwhile, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, the manager of Queens Park Rangers, another Championship side, was filmed agreeing to represent the same firm by flying to the Far East to talk to investors for £55,000 a time.

He appeared open to the idea of signing players owned by the firm, despite the possibility of a conflict of interest. He told undercover reporters posing as representatives of the company: “Give me a ----ing player. A good player.”

could i read the article please

nm i got it

have the FA sacked Allardyce on the basis of evidence that they don't currently believe is sufficient to remove any other manager?

just checking

yes, but tbh i actually do agree that the national manager isn't any other manager

just mourning my lost prince

Rooney in midfield and Lingard on the wing bcos, as Southgate put it "He's in a good moment with his form". Paddy Power offering 75/1 on a nil-nil, may lump on a few quid just for lols

Southgate is such a gentleman he's clearly establishing his "unfit for the job" credentials nice and early

nah, Rashford will come on and rescue it xpost

Lingard is a strange one. His supporters praise his "movement", which tbf is probably superior to most of the statuesque fuckers Utd have up front, but he regularly goes through entire games without having any direct positive influence. And then every ten games or so he'll pop up with something like the Cup final or Charity Shield goal.

Managers seem to like him because he does as he's told and runs around a lot, and Southgate obviously knows him well from the u-21s

So it would appear that England are still shite but, worry not, for, according to Tyldesley, 'two or three' of the goals Scotland scored against Malta were 'fortuitous'.

wish i'd watched this now, sounds funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1txLJu5BBsA

^ benched

He should not expect a great deal of sympathy but in the grand scheme of managerial scandals it is certainly a few notches down from the passage in Joey Barton’s newly released autobiography about the “creative accounting” of one manager (though not one, he says, he ever played under) whose “speciality was making late substitutions on the understanding his assistant would later collect a percentage of the player’s match fee”. That manager, according to Barton, was infamous for giving homegrown players their debuts, sometimes just for a few minutes, so the academy director would collect a bonus, to be split again. The manager would re-sign players he had worked with at other clubs and take a cut from them, too – paid monthly, and invariably in cash.

― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Wednesday, September 28, 2016 7:27 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Who?

― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Wednesday, September 28, 2016 7:28 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Redknapp surely

― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Wednesday, September 28, 2016 7:52 AM (one week ago)

I've heard rumours of this type around Warnock for years.

when he was at Town he fell out with the chairman over some misunderstood verbal agreement for him to have his own club merchandise shop in the town centre .. the bloody shameless grifter!

jason puncheon was fined 15k for publicly accusing him of the re-signed player racket, but homegrown debuts doesnt really check out - given maybe like five in the last decade iirc

also worth asking yourself what % of every substitution you've ever seen in your life was purely of sporting motivation - clubs paying less if they come on after 60 mins etc

Wayne Rooney has a massive bench coat on as he sidles up alongside Jamie Vardy in the dugout. He's having a laugh and a joke. He'll be hoping to have an effect from there.

he's supposed to be sitting at one end of the bench but he's moved to the middle.

kyle walker just hit the worst cross of all time

Hang on dude I've seen Theo Walcott play

Walcott hasn't walker's consistency

cue frantic phone calls to Bruce this morning before he takes the Villa job

https://twitter.com/JohnSalako/status/798643534202974209

Worst tweet since Piers Morgan on the day OBL bought it.

merciful god

his deflected shot saved us from losing at home to non-league daggers when we were premier league tho so he's a bit forgiven

Remembrance Sunday. Thank you for paying the Ultimate sacrifice for us. God Save The Queen.

Gets bodied in stan collymore's autobiog iirc

collymore is CARD's press champion too, weirdly. the white knight to save us all