Allardyce Fires Broadside At Bolton Chairman Gartside
It seems that ever since Sam Allardyce left Bolton Wanderers last month – his old Chairman Phil Gartside has said some unprofessional and childish things about Sam. It certainly looks like sour grapes from our viewpoint with Gartside claiming Bolton were a bigger club and other things – that even suggest some jealousy.
Well Sam has hit back today and we’ll look at what Sam (always outspoken) had to say about his former Irish Chairman.
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Allardyce told The Sun today:
“Gartside reckoned I wouldn’t have got the Bolton job if I was applying for it now and we would never have signed El-Hadji Diouf or Nicolas Anelka if it wasn’t for Sammy Lee,” “He also claimed Sammy did more of the coaching than me and was basically the better man. I began to wonder whether I’d done anything at Bolton.
Did we dream Bolton came from nowhere to become a top Premier League team and qualify for Europe? Was it an illusion or something?. “Gartside just sounded sad and bitter.”
“If I’d ever had any doubts about leaving Bolton, that justified to me that I was right to go.”
Not sure why these things happen in football but to us it’s all rather unprofessional – though entertaining. Sam also should be complimented for what he did at Bolton because certainly his personality seemed to be a major force in their success.
The players all seem to talk highly of Sam also - so we exepct there is some disappointment that Sam did finally move on. We’ll just have to wait and see how Sammy Lee does at Bolton.
But it looks like our first game under Sam at the Reebok Stadium on August 11th will have an electric atmosphere – for multiple reasons.
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League Position
Pos Team Pld GD Pts
13 Man City 20 8 22
14 Newcastle 19 -6 22
15 Sunderland 20 -8 22
Goals
Player PL FAC CC Total
Owen 7 0 2 9
Martins 6 0 0 6
Ameobi 3 0 0 3
N'Zogbia 2 0 1 3
Duff 2 0 0 2
Guthrie 2 0 0 2
Milner 1 0 0 1
Taylor 1 0 0 1
Barton 1 0 0 1
Xisco 1 0 0 1
Edgar 1 0 0 1
PL – Premier league
FAC – FA Cup
CC – Carling Cup
Injuries
Player Injury Return
Smith Achilles Jan09
Ngo Baheng ACL Knee Jan09
González Achilles Mar09
Dates are return to training
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Ed was born and bred in Newcastle Upon Tyne, and watched his first game at St. James’ Park in 1949 as a 4 year-old with his Mother and Father. He was told to look out for number 9 - Jackie Milburn – the great Wor Jackie - and was he fast!
In football terms Ed was a goalkeeper and played for Wharrier Street Primary School and Newcastle Minors (Newcastle Schoolboys Under-11), in 1956 and went on to play for Newcastle Schoolboys and Northumberland Schoolboys (Under-15) in 1959 and an England Schoolboys trial.
He was at Newcastle United for a couple of years from 1960 as an amateur, while still at school, and played with Bobby Moncur and David Craig, amongst others, for the Newcastle United Under-18 side (Newcastle N’s in those days), during the relegation season of 1960-1961.
Ed attended Heaton Technical and Manor Park schools, and then went on to study at both King’s College, London (BSc Electrical Engineering) and Newcastle University (PhD Computer Science). He played for Newcastle Universities and England Universities from 1967 until 1970.
But a short couple of years after Ed joined IBM in 1970, he was shipped over to the USA, with his new wife Madeline, a beautiful local Newcastle lassie.
At IBM Ed was in computer systems and network design for 34 years, and in his last 10 years at the company was persuaded to enter executive management. where he ended up running IBM's Americas' Network Consulting Group for 5 years from the late 1990s, and was instrumental in forming the IBM alliance with Cisco Systems in 1999.
Ed and Madeline live just outside Raleigh in North Carolina. Their twin sons Paul and Neil, and daughter Elaine, are now in their early 30s, live close by, and Neil has carried on the family tradition by becoming an avid Newcastle United supporter.
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