Big Sam's Bolton Woes
Say what you will about Sam Allardyce encouraging a style of football so boring that the grass growing under the players' feet was more interesting to watch than the match going on above it, but he didn't do too badly with Bolton.
With keeper Jussi Jaaskelainen out for the rest of the season, you have to say that it might be curtains for them now. They don't have the quality or the consistency to produce results, and with a few exceptions, they look distinctly like a Championship side.
And Big Sam's other team, Newcastle, are hardly setting the world alight either. Their demise is slightly more tragic, purely for the fact that they've got such bloody good players. Seriously, how can they be so bad? Just look at their team. Look at it.
Yes, that's Owen, Martins, Smith and Viduka up front. Yes, and Milner, Butt, Parker, Emre, Duff and Barton in midfield. Okay, so maybe we won't talk too much about the defence, but even so. After all, their defence leaks more easily than a porn star sieve (if such a thing existed).
Fulham and Bolton going down wouldn't be the end of the world to most neutrals, but Newcastle? Not quite such a popular one. And no doubt Keegan would just run straight back into the depths of the non-footballing world from whence he came. After every match he says, 'We weren't good enough, we deserved to lose.' Everyone loves a bit of honesty Kevin, but they'd love it even more if you just shut up about it and won a game instead.
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