Sam Allardyce's 67-day reign as England boss came to an end earlier this week, denying him the opportunity to spectacularly fail at a major international tournament.
As the English FA begin their search for their third permanent manager of 2016, it also emerged Thursday that they'd had to bin 4,000 T-shirts that had been printed for England's game with Malta on October 8.
To celebrate what would've been Big Sam's first match in charge of England at Wembley, the FA stuck his 'the journey starts with us pulling together' quote on the front of the T-shirts and were due to gift them to some of the supporters at the World Cup qualifier. One high-profile undercover Telegraph report later, and that plan is on its arse.
Having heard this news, we decided this was the perfect opportunity to ask SportsJOE readers to produce their own T-shirt designs to
celebrate commemorate Allardyce's short-lived time as England boss.
https://twitter.com/SportsJOE_UK/status/781443218663669760
As is always the case in these situations, you didn't let us down. Here's a sample of some of the responses we received.
Right from the off, a strong gravy theme emerged...
https://twitter.com/randallbell/status/781444704282021888
https://twitter.com/bloatyfloat/status/781445944155971584
https://twitter.com/joshuahyman/status/781444278954360832
Some were inspired by the post-dismissal interview Allardyce gave from outside his home on Wednesday morning...
https://twitter.com/Jonny_Mackenzie/status/781445863247900672
Others used popular kids TV shows as their inspiration...
https://twitter.com/RonanHogan/status/781599850378960896
https://twitter.com/gordo_rob/status/781451934624612352
For some reason, there was also a reference to Only Fools and Horses
https://twitter.com/Lankysi/status/781447148512616449
There was a smug Gary Neville...
https://twitter.com/Matty344/status/781452064950018048
This...
https://twitter.com/YNWA_Ayersie/status/781446955608207360
This...
https://twitter.com/JonnyGabriel/status/781449466792607744
And this.
https://twitter.com/jimjimdoherty/status/781469238028566528
Let's finish on a positive note though. Twitter user was determined to highlight how grateful Adam Lallana - scorer of the only England goal during the Allardyce era - would have been to his former boss.
https://twitter.com/SMiTH_DOSxx/status/781447565170454528
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