For Allardyce, it was always November. And that was the Problem

[GrandOldTeam]

Very good article, thanks Jim

 

[Deckard2049]

Chelsea collapsed completely under Mourinho and were in a worse situation than us when he was sacked.

Did Chelsea go for a Pulis or Allardyce? Did they hell - didn't matter where they were in the league, they went for quality in Conte as they understood the message a stupid appointment would send.

Moshiri decided to go for the nuclear option instead - an obvious disaster of an appointment that would 'save' us from relegation (ridiculous statement in itself - we were never in danger of it) and done because our owner is an incompetent fool and has proven such time and time again.

Whole thing is infuriating as it was all totally avoidable. Because of Moshiri we have relegated our stature on the footballing stage.

This. You can only be judged by the actions you take. And we acted like Sunderland, Palace, West Ham and Blackburn. People criticise the media for having an agenda against us and belittling us but we don’t do ourselves any favours sometimes with our own lack of self respect.

 

[madkiwi]

Very good point. If you consider that we were still playing like we were trying to avoid relegation even in April/May then the reasons for the set up Sam chose makes sense.

And reading that summary, I had completely forgotten we’d been in Europe this year. It’s been such a long hard season, that was just a distant memory.

 

[Barnfred 55]

We tried to get Silva first, that didn't pan out and in the meantime we got worse and worse to the point we had to get Sam in. Not many decent managers would be queuing up to take us on when we looked the worst team in the league. We could have easily been in trouble had we stayed on the same course. What's done is done.

What's done is done is right. He was only here 6 months and, apart from having to sweet talk some of the younger players he's undoubtedly upset, the new manager will hardly have been inconvenienced by Allardyce's tenure here. In hindsight, far bigger damage has been done by Koeman and Walsh and their dealings in the transfer market.