Louis van Gaal put Sam Allardyce’s long ball comments to bed, but the internet saw it differently

All in all, this was probably a bad move

After their 1-1 draw at Upton Park on Sunday, Sam Allardyce suggested that Manchester United played an awful lot of long balls during the game. The stats backed up Big Sam's claim, even though most people knew that he was really only saying it to have a bit of a dig at the people who fawn over foreign tacticians like the Dutchman while deriding Big Sam's route one approach over the years. Well it seems that Van Gaal has been well and truly 'out-tacticed' by Big Sam, not because of anything that happened at Upton Park, but because today he responded to the claims by producing a sheet full of facts for the media at his press conference before United's clash with Burnley on Wednesday. It brought to mind Rafael Benitez's 'facts' press conference while in charge of Liverpool in 2009. The internet was not impressed by Van Gaal's performance, though such is the United manager's arrogance confidence that it's hard to imagine he'll care. https://twitter.com/DTguardian/status/565133003970867200 https://twitter.com/hirstclass/status/565133422104809473 https://twitter.com/andi_thomas/status/565133185902977024 https://twitter.com/JamesMawFFT/status/565134363244130305 https://twitter.com/RichieMcCormack/status/565133537909936129 https://twitter.com/tomEurosport/status/565133639160455168 https://twitter.com/SachinNakrani/status/565133755959218176 https://twitter.com/danielstorey85/status/565133905725239296 https://twitter.com/ed_aarons/status/565133990026567680 https://twitter.com/AlexShawESPN/status/565134125032816640 https://twitter.com/The_Paris_Angel/status/565134629947318272 https://twitter.com/andi_thomas/status/565138890470993921 https://twitter.com/DTguardian/status/565133411392974848 https://twitter.com/MirrorAnderson/status/565136527119118336 https://twitter.com/ManUtd/status/565135038287998977 https://twitter.com/AlexShawESPN/status/565149457126555648 https://twitter.com/br_uk/status/565156573266591745 https://twitter.com/danielstorey85/status/565135513590706176 https://twitter.com/MOgdenTelegraph/status/565136607641350145 https://twitter.com/DTguardian/status/565133952726630400 https://twitter.com/RobHarris/status/565139313986662402