“Hounded Out Like Me” – How To Make The Merseyside Derby About Yourself

Former Everton manager Sam Allardyce has continued his one man war on fake news this weekend and again attempted to slightly rewrite history as he blames the Goodison Park faithful for being fickle and not knowing what they actually want.

Speaking to the Mirror on Saturday, Allardyce again ran the ‘woe is me’ routine slamming those fans who ‘hounded (him) out’ of the club as he ensured the Merseyside derby headlines were focused on him.

Claiming he doesn’t hold a grudge about his time at Everton (yet speaks of nothing but his sacking) and states he knows it wasn’t personal, Allardyce again compared himself to Roberto Martinez and Ronald Koeman, stating the style of football was irrelevant, the fans just have a tendency to turn against managers and that was what happened to him.

“Look, it’s not about Sam Allardyce – it’s about the manager that they don’t like at the given time. They didn’t like Ronald Koeman’s style and they didn’t like Roberto Martinez before him, so they hounded both of them out and then hounded me out, too. So I don’t think it was necessarily me, that’s why I don’t take offence personally. The fans are entitled to express an opinion. They pay their money and are entitled to have a say. I don’t like it, of course. But I don’t take offence. I look at the previous managers and see what happened to them. They were hounded out like me, but I think it was about the club at the time, not specifically me.”

Maybe he should demonstrate his lack of offence and prove it’s not about “Sam Allardyce” by actually changing the record and shutting up about his failed spell with us. Time to put the dummy back in possibly?