It's the home games too if you look at the comments on the BBC report from last night's win. Yes that's right, win. Reading them you'd think they'd lost 3-0.

Optimistic as ever

They seem to have the same chip on their shoulder that West Ham do. We don't just want to win, we want to win in a certain way. Both sets of fans are delusional.

Optimistic as ever

I don't imagine Big Sam is too bothered TBH.

He seems to have found his Blueprint...

Leave a Club at the end of the season, take the entire summer off and chill. No pre-season headaches or chasing transfer targets and losing your best players to rival teams to worry about. A bit of media as and when you fancy, in between a few more holidays.

Firefighter Sam knows that with his reputation and track record he can take over a big struggling club in or near to the bottom 3 at Xmas, get paid more in 5/6 months than some PL managers do for the entire year and on top of the monthly salary negotiate a big fat bonus for saving the team from relegation.

Inherit someone else's struggling team so no blame for their current position and if you do turn it round, you're a Hero!

He'll be given a sizeable transfer kitty for the January window and then get to work.

With his current team now safe Mrs. Allardyce is no doubt spending some of that bonus and has the Holiday brochures at the ready and has ordered him some new XXL Vilebrequin swim shorts.

I imagine he's quite looking forward to having the next 7 months off before taking over at 'newly promoted' Aston Villa or Fulham next December.

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I think he will be bothered. He always wanted to test himself at the highest level, England didn't work out, everton are the biggest club he'll likely ever manage and it looks like it'll run away from him.

I think that's the only reason why he came back after us, if it was a smaller club with limited funds he'd have refused.

The guys made his millions years before now, that wasn't the big pull im certain

Big Sam is most certainly interested in the money, otherwise why when appointed England manager was he negotiating a dodgy £400,000 deal to represent a company he had never heard of, before even his first England game?! Perhaps the £3 Million Salary wasn’t enough?

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That greed contributed to him leaving his England’s post after only one game in charge. So much for wanting to work at the highest Level and it shows exactly where his priorities were.

Perhaps some people really do believe his reason for quitting Palace was actually to ‘spend more time with his family’.

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In defence of Sam Allardyce the above (or at least the first paragraph) has all subsequently been proven to have been a severe stretching of the truth by the Telegraph who carried out the sting.

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