Coruchy you should have been on here then my friend , let me tell you about dear old Avram .
I was , by the end, the only poster on this site ( 17,000 registered users) that was defending him .I actually enjoyed quite a lot of the football under him - I'm not a pro so watching Obina fire it high wide and handsome from 35 yards was fun - we'd had a shot !
I got slaughtered on here pretty much 24/7 for the whole season .
Which is why I won't listen to others whining about the style of football these days .They got the Manager they deserved .
So you know , I was the first to call Sam out on here for style .We had just done Watford 4-0 away and I wasn't happy with how we had played .
The plain truth is for the vast majority of fans good football is when we win , crap football is when we don't .
Now, I've changed my mind on Sam as I can see a little bit more about what he has tried to do and the constraints that he operates in are signficant , so I'll cut him some slack , and i wish others would as well .
I was on here then. I have been here since about 2003. I wanted Grant out as he was incompetent. However, I still feel the negativity towards Allardyce is greater and more fervent than it was towards Grant. Both on here and in the ground