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After8 1:21 Fri Feb 26
The OAF has a pop!
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Telegraph.co.uk
FOOTBALL
Sam Allardyce warms up for West Ham return by taking swipe at supporters
Sunderland manager Sam Allardyce blasts Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore over fixture glut
Sam Allardyce returns to Upton Park this weekend
Sunderland manager will be back at Upton Park on Saturday after bemoaning way fans turn on the team
Sam Allardyce has accused West Ham United supporters of making it difficult to play for the club because of the spiteful way they turn on their own players.
Allardyce endured a difficult relationship with West Ham fans, many of whom were glad to see the back of him when he left at the end of last season. Having said his new club, Sunderland, are supported by fans who are far more “lenient” when things go badly, Allardyce claimed the biggest challenge for him at Upton Park was trying to repair the damage done to morale by abuse from the terraces.
Allardyce spent four seasons at West Ham, guiding the club back into the Premier League in his first season via the Championship play-offs, before successfully stabilising them in the top flight ahead of their move to the Olympic Stadium later this year.
However, some supporters were openly hostile towards the 61-year-old because of the style of football he played, and although Allardyce claimed they were only a “small minority” there is no doubt things turned sour for him in East London.
Sam Allardyce
Sam Allardyce never won over the West Ham supporters
“I think I was appreciated by the majority of fans,” he said. “It was a small minority who made themselves very loud and very clear about how they felt about me at the time. That wasn’t just me, it was all the managers who have been at West Ham.
“Appreciation from the fans is always very important. Nobody wants to be booed or be told to get out or get off, but it happened. It happened at Newcastle, too.
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“You want to try and deliver what the fans want. At Sunderland, they want to stay in the Premier League and I want to keep them up, too. They’re appreciating how hard we’re trying to do that, I think.
“I think they’ve been very lenient with our players, compared to West Ham’s. Sometimes the players at West Ham suffered far greater than me. When I was there the fans used to get on their backs.
Allardyce's successor Slaven Bilic is far more popular
“It is easy for me to take it on the touchline because I’m not playing. Man management, a lot of the time at West Ham, was calming them down about the criticism they were getting off the fans, that they didn’t actually think they deserved.
“In many cases they didn’t, but I told them they had to accept it. You can’t let it affect your game or you’ll get even more stick.”
Allardyce knew what to expect when he agreed to take the West Ham job in 2011 and claimed that everyone in football knows their fans are difficult, even if they do not admit it in public.
“You accept that’s the way it is at that football club,” Allardyce added. “And because it’s like that, no matter what you do, at some stage you’ll get criticised. I knew that before I went there, because you ring people up who used to manage and that’s what they’d tell you.
Allardyce claims former West Ham manager Alan Pardew privatley agrees with him
“I don’t suppose, if you spoke to Harry Redknapp or Alan Pardew or Alan Curbishley, that they would admit that, because they are West Ham boys, but I’m not and they’ve said it to me privately.”
Allardyce is adamant he will return to West Ham with Sunderland on Saturday with his head held high because all they did while he was manager “was get better”.
He continued: “Hopefully people will appreciate what I’ve done there. In the main, going around East London on several occasions, nobody ever expressed anger or ill feeling, it was just a small minority at certain times.
“It might have been personal to me at a certain time, but that’s West Ham. That’s the way it was there for me. As a manager, when you get home at the weekend and you’ve won the game, that’s the most important thing. That’s what makes you feel worthwhile."
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dicksie3
10:57 Fri Feb 26
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*Blows kiss at QDJS*
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Mad Dog
10:09 Fri Feb 26
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I can't believe that YOU can't believe what he said.
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Eastside surge
9:16 Fri Feb 26
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Spot on there Yarmouth my thoughts exactly
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Son of Anarchy
9:08 Fri Feb 26
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I would've thought Sam would've said...it's done I'm focussed on Sunderland now.
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13 Brentford Rd
9:06 Fri Feb 26
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Can't believe he's come out with this what a cunt.
Billic and the players have had total backing even love from all this season. Yes we are doing well due to Billic and better players but also he has embraced the club's traditions and fans.
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Johnson
8:46 Fri Feb 26
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Why did you think I was talking about you?
The lady doth protest too much and all that.
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dicksie3
8:45 Fri Feb 26
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I've never said I hated the Boleyn Ground, QUEEN DRUID JOHNSON SON.
I do think that it's a pile of old shit though and the OS will shit all over it.
Still, I don't hate the Boleyn Ground. Never said that.
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Johnson
8:42 Fri Feb 26
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OSer divs have been spending money for YEARS, well since Euro 96, going to a place they hate, that is lopsided and had too many Sari shops on the same road.
Proper clever thinking that.
If a DRUID doesn't like what he sees, he's wasted one ST, not years of the things.
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dicksie3
8:40 Fri Feb 26
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All the BITCHY GAGA PAGAN QUEENS are still going to the OS anyway, despite slagging it off and saying how shit it's going to be - having never even set-foot in the stadium before (especially since its reconstruction).
Still, they'll be mincing their way to the new ground in sky-high platforms next season.
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Buster
8:37 Fri Feb 26
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It's impossible to compete with less than 40k capacity.
*Looks at top two in the table*
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stewie griffin
8:33 Fri Feb 26
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Must admit, I do have a grudging admiration for the OSers.
For 5 years, we'll die if we stay at Upton Park, it's impossible to progress there.
Change manager, improve recruitment, achieve progress whilst at Upton Park
See, the OS is working already, we're progressing because we're moving there in the future.
It's basically impossible to argue with. Excellent stuff
*looks for founders badge, remembers it went in the bin, smiles*
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i-Ron
8:25 Fri Feb 26
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Payet signed a new deal based on the fact we can pay him with the season ticket sales revenue projected and extra seats in mind....that the Anti OS'ers said we'd never never sell or was even possible to expand.
Another win for the OS'ers or whatever it is.
*straightens founders badge*
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Charoo
8:23 Fri Feb 26
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Are we still talking about him and even worse listening to him?
He is now an irrelevance - surely?
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Son of Anarchy
8:18 Fri Feb 26
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2 AAAAANDRED OAFS
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stewie griffin
8:07 Fri Feb 26
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Our progress started the minute Tony Henry arrived and the fat cunt couldn't piss away his money anymore a couple of seasons ago. Cunt's eventual removal was the next stage, and the fact that bilic had 2 targets when he arrived, PAYET and LANZINI just shows the difference between the two.
Still, given PAYET's desperation to play in the OS, you have to wonder why we needed to give him a new contract. I'd have thought as he was so excited about it, it wouldn't have been necessary.
Unless of course players don't actually sign for stadiums.
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Darlo Debs
7:58 Fri Feb 26
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I don't have an issue with Sunderalnd fans at all, but I hope we help send them down. This sort of sour grapes whinging by BFS is really getting on my norks.
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Roby
7:55 Fri Feb 26
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This shows he is an absolute prick.
Even coming out and trying to report on what ex whufc bosses who had played for us had told him in private.
No decency whatsoever.
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i-Ron
7:54 Fri Feb 26
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*Karen Brady says we can attract the best players in the world as a win for the OS = anti WHO'ers call her a cunt and scoff at the idea*
*West Ham sign Payet who mentions the stadium as part of the project convinced him to move, and then again in his new contract = Anti WHO'ers claiming a technicality victory that he's joined while at the current stadium"
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The Ghost of Braderz
7:53 Fri Feb 26
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He's always so honest, detailed and fair when he speaks.
Can't disagree with anything he's said here.
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Texas Iron
7:52 Fri Feb 26
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My advice...
Completely IGNORE ...'
...The Complete IGNORAMUS that is Allardyce...
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Johnson
7:40 Fri Feb 26
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stewie griffin 7:17 Fri Feb 26
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