Sam Allardyce: dead man walking
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Quite apart from Newcastle’s guile free game-plan, the home players’ buy canada goose jacket uk body language suggested they were not playing for their manager. In marked contrast, Liverpool’s team appeared to be re-grouping behind their manager, Rafa Benítez a man presently at loggerheads with the club’s American owners over transfer funding. adidas neo uomo If Steven Gerrard and co really disliked Benítez this might have been the time to undermine best place to buy a canada goose jacket in toronto the great rotator, to preface a path for his departure from Anfield but, on this evidence, that theory is light years away from the reality.
Allied to a newly tough training regime, Newcastle’s rudimentary style explains why murmurings of unrest have begun to be audible from Allardyce’s dressing room where the default mode of many players remains pass and move. Albert Pujols Baseball Jersey Examples of Newcastle’s new found directness were epitomised by Jose Enrique – and small wonder they called him ‘The Bull’ in Spain – whose long, lofted, balls from left back sporadically troubled Steve Finnan and Jamie Carragher but, all too often, were easily second guessed by Rafa Benítez’s backline.
Rumour has it that Michael Owen – absent through injury here – does not relish receiving balls at throat height. Chaussure Adidas Pas Cher Equally, when the similarly diminutive Obafemi Martins was the subject of a whopping punt towards the corner flag from Nicky Butt – and what on earth was he doing on the right of midfield? – the Nigerian looked suitably disillusioned at chasing such a lost cause.
The point of playing the percentages, of course, is the presumption that you might get lucky on the second ball and Alan Smith very nearly did that courtesy of a shot which whistled just wide after David Rozehnal’s boot upfield eluded Mark Viduka in the air but fell kindly for Allardyce’s favourite midfielder. Otherwise Benitez’s tactic of deploying the little used Lucas Leiva as a deep lying holding midfielder, screening his back four – surely yet another instance of the syndrome identified as ‘sweeper creep’ by Harry Pearson in the Guardian last week – offered Liverpool a generally pretty successful bulwark against the home artillery.
Newcastle though were somewhat less menacing than the abuse initially directed at Steven Gerrard, presumably a reaction to last Wednesday’s best place to buy a canada goose jacket events with England at Wembley. Entirely predictably click canada goose, Gerrard shut them up with his stunning opener and, by the time Dirk Kuyt doubled Liverpool’s advantage, Geordie fans had re-directed their ire towards those much closer to Tyneside: namely the man standing in the home technical area. Tellingly Allardyce’s decision to replace Emre – by some distance Newcastle’s most creative midfielder – with the recently under-achieving Joey Barton was greeted by widespread booing, gladly amplified by Liverpool’s by now gleeful travelling support.
If Barton is not that popular with Newcastle fans, James Milner is admired by the fans for the industry of his wing play so the jeering that accompanied the England Under-21 international’s entrance at the expense of Charles N’Zogbia was all about Allardyce. The subtext is that, like Emre, N’Zogbia is a rare creative force in this increasingly robotic team.
Shortly afterwards the Liverpool fans started singing “He’s got a big fat head” in reference to Allardyce – by now looking somewhat shaken – and their Newcastle counterparts applauded enthusiastically. nike air max femme pas cher Soon Ryan Babbel made it three – and Allardyce was surely regretting his recent, dismissive comments about Benítez in buy canada goose jacket australia Zoo magazine. Kanken No.2 After Torres missed a sitter – yet another – Allardyce had abuse poured on him when he ventured into the technical area.