The final few shirt-sleeved weeks
of the season are tough for the teams at the foot of the Premier League, but
there was no call for what Sunderland manager Sam Allardyce did when Matic put
Chelsea 2-1 ahead just before half time at the Stadium of Light on
Saturday.
He spun round, took his
wad of chewing gum out of his mouth, and threw it to the ground.
One of his many colleagues on the
coaching staff - Sam has always favoured a hefty backroom presence; fitness
conditioners, psychologists, food tasters, necromancers, and the like
(actually, I'm not sure about the food tasters) - will step on that and later
have to remove it from the ridges in the soles of his or her training shoe with
a small knife or similar implement, possibly having first unsuspectingly
trodden it into the interior carpeting of their car.
My advice is to send the car-valeting bill to Sam to pay out
of his Premier League survival bonus.
Full article published at 10am Monday morning at SportingIntelligence.com...