Football

Really hoping this is enough to see Allardyce go. Actual corruption, what is the England manager selling himself as an ‘advisor’ for anyway? He clearly can’t help himself. Do not want.

Would then like to see Eddie Howe get a shot. Sad times when the pickings are so slim, but I think with Eddie Howe you at least have the potential that he could do something exciting.

He’s really impressive; he’s taken a small unfashionable team up and kept them in the prem, whilst playing good football (similar to what Liverpool, Spurs and Man City are playing, who will provide the vast majority of the England team) and doing it all with good humour whilst speaking well. I’d feel happy for him to represent England and I feel he’d do it well. Yeah, he may well struggle with pressure and fluff the next world cup, but then that’s hardly a new unprecedented low. And there’s the chance, at least the chance, with him that it could go well. He might pick the right players, get us playing proper modern football and then we could play to our level at the world cup, which would be a QF. And that would be a huge improvement on recent times.

You know what you're getting with fat sam or Pards. Throw-back, robust, conservative football with big men up front and tricky wingers and three lions and blah blah blah. Ignoring the fact that none of our top teams play like this and it's going to be hard to fit them into that sort of system.

But, blatantly, he'll get off with a slapped wrist and lead us joylessly into another dismal world cup.