The mind boggles sometimes about the things that emerge from Sam Allardyce’s mouth.
The Sunderland manager is a journalist’s wet dream when it comes to quotes, and after last night’s 1-0 loss to Manchester City at the Stadium of Light, the Black Cats boss was once again in fine verbal garbage form.
His side were beaten by a Sergio Aguero goal, but the game was noted especially for one seemingly ugly incident when Jermaine Defoe’s elbow appeared to connect with the face of Nicolas Otamendi.
Defoe catches Otamendi in the face with a stray arm. Demichelis going head-to-head with Defoe. All very silly. #safc
— James Hunter (@JHunterChron) February 2, 2016
Not seen MOTD yet but it sounds like panel were generous to Defoe. I thought he meant to catch Otamendi and certainly did catch Demichelis.
— Steve Wilson (@Wilsonfooty) February 3, 2016
Things got heated for a while but the game eventually calmed down as Sunderland slumped to another home loss under the former West Ham manager.
In his post-match briefing, Allardyce was asked about the incident, and he trotted out a line that was pretty much just missing the cliche of “they don’t like it up ’em”, and “they’re technically better so they are them foreign players”.
Full Sam Allardyce quote on 'them' foreign players. Spectacularly ignorant. pic.twitter.com/33rIsRrcuQ
— Daniel Storey (@danielstorey85) February 2, 2016
Naturally the hypocrisy and stupidity of the statement was quickly exposed on Twitter.
@danielstorey85 Not including the 7 foreign players in Sunderland's starting 11 presumably.
— Connor O'Neil (@Con_027) February 2, 2016
Sam Allardyce 'all 'foreign' players make a meal of things. What a fucking dinosaur. Half his team will be disgusted, including O'Shea.
— Dave Smith (@DaveSmith8882) February 2, 2016
How does Allardyce still get away with slagging off 'foreign players'. Any other walk of life he's done for racist slurs
— Chris Taylor (@ChrisJT23) February 2, 2016
We wonder what his players will think of the statement the next time one of them gets an elbow or stray boot to the face?
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