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Not a big fan of what he calls football BaggieSteve.

A centre-back as a player who would pick 10 centre backs for his team if he could. If he was managing your side with the Three Degrees in it, they'd never have been called that, he wouldn't have picked all three in the same side. Doubtful he'd have picked two to be honest.

While the draw with Liverpool looked good on it's own as a result, the Scousers are showing they are human after all right now with their current run of results, so maybe you caught them at the right time.

When trying to play the same way against L666s and Arsenal at home gets you a pair of battering's, no goals and a goalie with a bad back from picking the ball out of the net, you have to look at yourself rather than blaming the players - especially the one's he didn't pick. Getting a battering trying to play football - it also happened to L666s at Man U - is one thing. Getting battered not trying to get out of your own half is a different matter entirely.

I hope you stay up, I really do, but I'd like to see you playing football the WBA way doing it, not his way.

For me the comments about Allardyce picking all defenders are baseless. It's simply a stigma that has spread like wildfire without any justification. I'd love to know at which team he did that?

I've looked through the line ups of every team he's managed in the Premier League and they have all had flair players. His Bolton team featured both Jay Jay Okocha and Youri Djorkaef, two of the most creative players in the history of the Premier League. Okocha is one of the most entertaining players of all time. Allardyce brought both players to the league.

At Sunderland he signed Wahbi Khazri to keep them up and he was a creative winger. He was as undisciplined a player as you could get, but he scored and created the goals to keep them up.

At West Ham he picked Ravel Morrison. To my knowledge he's the only manager in the history of the game to give him a chance, every other manager said he was too undisciplined.

Yes, there has been times he's had to graft his way to survival with crap teams, but never has he picked a team without wingers and creators. You can look through all of the teams he's managed in the Premier League. There are plenty of other managers who have done the same but don't seem to attract the stigma, typically because they are young and/or foreign. I mean Eddie Howe is considered some sort of messiah and his Bournemouth teams simply lulled sides to death before he wasted hundreds of millions and was eventually relegated. I never watched any Bournemouth game under Howe that involved any attractive football, but because the guy is under 40 he's given this 'modern coach' badge. Fair play to Bielsa at Leeds and Gasperini at Atalanta who are breaking the stimga about 'older' coaches, producing the most freescoring teams in their respective leagues.

Sure, Sam isn't one of those swashbuckling managers but he's no more negative than many others who seem to escape the stimaga. Not sure if it's because he's old, English, has a bulldog face or a mix of the three, but he seems to get a raw deal. On the one occasion he was given money and not only tasked with inheriting a crap side and keeping them up, he always took Bolton to the Champions League and had them playing good football.

We haven't played any decent football this season, so I doubt he's going to change that. But probably people will 'notice' how crap the football is now - which seemed to go unnoticed before - presumably because the coach had a foreign name and that seems to by default make the team 'exciting'.

And as far as the Liverpool performance goes, we remain the only team to take a point from Anfield. Sure, they have been rubbish on the road all season - Villa put 7 past them at Villa Park - but at home they have turned everyone over. So that performance shouldn't be underestimated, it was one of the few performances this season where we got our balance right.