Two current headlines on the main football page on the BBC: How Everton's pursuit of a new manager has gone horribly wrong: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42132308 Allardyce is leading Everton contender: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42142329
Everton, having failed to land Diego Simeone, Thomas Tuchel, etc. are going big on British. The impending appointment of BFS always had an air of inevitability about it. As Everton are re-living our 2008/09 season, BFS is Harry as Koeman was Ramos. Despite their current appalling form, now, I expect them to stay up. Sam will improve their lot but it will not be the best of news for some of their promising youngsters and there will be difficulties 2 years hence, when the calls for better football and Top 6 finishes inevitably turn up. I doubt Sam will be an appointment to turn Barkley's head, although Rooney's probably as happy as a pig in ****. If we want Barkley [and we should], then Sam will probably need funds to bring in Patrick van Aanholt and he will be available to someone. Maybe we could snaffle someone else, like Davies, as well? There's also a young striker, Henry Onyekuru, out on loan that other clubs like Barcelona are circling. There's also a possibility to offload Sissoko, who despite running around a lot more this season, poses no threat to the opposition's goal, whatsoever.
Carlton Cole's out of contract. I'm only sort of semi-joking. Allardyce picked him 128 times for Wet Sham.
By complete coinkidink, the NY Times has highlighted the biggest problem for young English coaches: the same old English coaches getting jobs https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/sports/soccer/premier-league-sam-allardyce.html
95th minute: Journalists all scrabbling to rewrite their articles, including the BBC report, which is currently one sentence long!
Shades of The Evening News from years gone by. You'd buy a post-game Saturday evening copy describing about 60 minutes of the game. Late goals were in the Stop Press. Oh, the memories.
You still get that in The Metro and the like. Their headlines are about games going into extra-time. Very useful.
WTF is it with the feckin' hype around Barkley?? He's not the feckin' Messiah - he's not even a decent 'naughty boy'!!
"Romelu Lukaku has worked tirelessly, as a manager if your striker's not scoring for you, you've got to look at what else they bring to the team." "And tonight, Lukaku has brought a lot, he's worked tirelessly." - Danny Murphy, 5 Live. That's in a game that he should've been banned from. Nice.
