Day -689. Worldcup2018
Some may say that there is some irony (others may go as far as to call it hilariously comical irony) that while the English Premier League is this year going to be home to 4 of the hippest, coolest football managers, today Sam Allardyce gave his first press conference as the England manager.
In the eyes of many Allardyce is as cool and hip as Klopp, Conte, Pep, Mourinho are dour and conservative. But maybe Sam was ahead of his time, a time when it wasn't cool to be a hip football manager. He had Jay Jay Okocha and Ivan Campo at Bolton who could put some real coolness factor into any current team. He used scientific coaching methods which others thought ridiculous, and he transformed little old Bolton into a stable Premier League team. And maybe his forwardness (eccentricity?) was too much for any of the "big" teams.
In the end results matter and in two years time, while the 4 hipsters are looking for a new "project" to undertake after the failure of the present one, Big Sam might be in Russia leading England to the quarter finals....semifinals? And his tobacco chewing, loosened tie look might be what all the hipsters are copying.
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