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

There are dark forces at work. I can't really say more

oh my god his 33rd birthday is drawing closer

the notice of resignation in 2018, it all fits

Everything Allardyce said post-match suggested Rooney will be retained regardless of form. It had begun with a television interview in the bowels of the stadium. “Wayne played wherever he wanted,” said the manager. “He was brilliant and controlled midfield. I can’t stop Wayne playing there.”

That demanded further clarity upstairs. “This is the most decorated outfield player in England. He’s won everything at Manchester United, at Champions League and domestic level. I think he holds a lot more experience at international football than I do as an international manager. So, when he is using his experience and playing as a team member, it’s not for me to say where he’s going to play.

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“It’s up to me to ask whether he’s doing well in that position, of course, and contributing. If so, great. We’d like to get him into goalscoring positions more. He’s been a goalscorer all his life and I want him to do that again, but he reads a game as he reads it. He read it very well, we won and dominated. I must admit, he did play a little deeper than I thought he’d play. But I was pleased with his performance.” As a glimpse of what awaits, that was intriguing. Allardyce had bemoaned the slow nature of England’s build-up play, and yet Rooney’s passing can actually be identified as slowing this team down.

You cant

I mean look

Look

......

Just....you can't ....

Can you?

Those comments have actually been kind of haunting me. What an utterly insane thing to say

yeah it is kind of disconcerting. the whole thing is taking on an odd feeling, like rooney is some idiot king in the land of the blind, outwitting smarter men with impermeable stupidity.

Personally I'm loving all this, the more the merrier tbh.

There's a conspiracy theory among a certain section of the Utd fan base that Rooney's contract actually guarantees him a starting place. I used to think it was a bit silly, but I've now realised it goes deeper than even they suspected

the call of cthulroo

could at least have taken cahill off so twp stones dier werent all deluding themselves in the same place

Casting the Roons (xp)

A Game of Th'Roons

Rashford just scored a hat-trick on his u-21 debut

Just semi-watched it, standard indictment of FA conservatism

https://streamable.com/y9is

flames. pen mightier than the golazo

should just play all the jamaican lads and leave be. rashford sturridge sterling stones

that was his first ever penalty

(second goal actually got a deflection)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/26/exclusive-sam-allardyce-mocked-predecessor-roy-hodgson---and-hit/

ten month investigation for that...

“So I’d have come in at half time and gone, right: bang bang bang bang bang. And then if that didn’t work I’d have gone bang, substitute, substitute, know what I mean, and

During the meeting he remarked that Sir Alex Ferguson gets “four hundred, five hundred grand a pop” for speaking engagements, while Robbie Williams got “£1.6 million for a wedding. Just singing”.

The England manager insisted he would deliver “value for money” in helping to attract investors, boasting of his popularity in the Orient.

“It’s not only the England manager,” he said, “it’s the beauty of being a Premier League manager all them years like me… I have more pictures taken over there than I have here.”

“Keynote speaking, that’s what I’d be doing, keynote speaking. I’m a keynote speaker.

“Just know, it’s just delivering, for you, it’s just delivering value for money… they’ve got to enjoy the time they’ve had, enjoy the conversation. Not just the keynote speech but also in the bar after.

“I don’t come in like a lot of them, come in, right bang, you’re off. Do you know what I mean? That’s the end of that, done that, I’m off. I’m going to stand at the bar, have a few social drinks.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2016/09/26/109618352-sam-allardyce-news-xlarge_trans++-huom9Cr2mAIkjZYyr9DXPvMFsXiFIPFn2DW4kWaEs0.jpg

is he drinking a pint of wine?

“Players let him down in the end. I think maybe he, he was too indecisive. Cast a bit of an anxiety over to the players maybe. I mean prior to the Iceland game, he won all 10 qualifiers. We'd drawn with Russia, we should have won. We beat Wales, and that was our worst performance. We drew with Slovakia, and we only had to draw with Iceland to get through ... he just collapsed.”

xpost

i like how even when it comes to after-dinner speeches he still believes his delivery module is superior

"We all make mistakes, but the next man can’t make the same ones. And Kyle Walker made a bigger mistake than Wayne Rooney.”

“It was the youngest side in Europe. It was the youngest squad,” he said. “The average age was under 25. There are some stats out there that says that any team that wins a tournament has to be, has to have an average age of 27 or above.”

During a conversation about England’s upcoming matches, Allardyce said the national side were next due to play Malta and then “it’s Slovenia or something”.

dread to think what i'd come out with after a pint of wine tbfttl

did enjoy him wiping his full plausibly deniably guilty face with the napkin as he stated that bungs were off limits

"doing meet and greets and nothing else, so it’s not, nobody’s going to come back to me and say 'I met Sam and I invested in this, this portfolio, and he told me to go and buy these young players, and that young player’, and that’s, you know. So they can’t blame me, do you know what I mean?”

yeah for a private conversation after sinking a few pints of wine his comments on the team are fairly tame. the financial stuff might be hard to get away with tho.

you gotta hand it to the man, if he'd walked into the England set-up and played the same old bullshit line-up, like Rooney in midfield for example, he'd look an utter cunt

all for clowning on this sleazy fuck, but that isn't a pint of wine.

Andy van der meyde ‏@andyeye77 1h
I fucking told ya, dont make allerdyce coach of England! #udontfuckinglistening

times claiming he's a goner fwiw

(xp apologies lbi. missed the other thread)

nbd rtc

Shame this will be his downfall. Was actually looking forward to seeing Allardyce's England.

Was looking at a list of previous England managers. It's quite the spectacle. Hadn't realised you lot haven't had a decent manager since Robson tbf.

https://media.giphy.com/media/3o7qDMlVquZI1axqQ8/giphy.gif

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/27/exclusive-sam-allardyce-claimed-hmrc-is-the-most-corrupt-busines/

what turning the screw looks like apparently

Raymond Verheijen ‏@raymondverheije 4m4 minutes ago
How did England manager Allardyce end up in this situation in first place? But Big Sam is just symptom of real problem of English football.

FULL HOUSE

bung periodisation is a must

Robson was a lucky manager, not a good one. Still maintain Venables could've been genuinely good.

https://twitter.com/NickMiller79/status/780773610378190848

seems he will go

Looks likely: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/09/27/sam-allardyce-loses-job-as-england-manager-after-telegraph-inves/.

Gone.
Couldn't have scripted that any more comically.

100% WIN RECORD.

David Moyes must be a worried man, more worried than usual that is.