Memo to the national press: Sam Allardyce does not manage Bolton Wanderers
Wednesday July 29th, 2009
Another season, and yet more lazy journalists getting the basics wrong
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I lost count of the number of times the press made reference to Sam Allardyce being manager of Bolton Wandererers last season.
After Big Sam returned to management in the north-west with Blackburn midway through last season, a succession of newspaper articles and – if memory serves – over-excitable Sky Sports pundits, lazily got Bolton mixed up with their Lancashire rivals.
Perhaps the media are showing sympathy with Wanderers fans, many of whom would also like to forget that Gary Megson is actually our manager these days. Either way, a summer of – ahem – exciting activity from Megson at the Reebok doesn’t seem to have given some journalists the ability to write the words ‘Big Sam’ without accompanying them with either ‘Bolton’, ‘Wanderer’ or ‘Trotters’.
Just check out this story from The Sunday Mirror, spotted by the website 101 Great Goals, in which Miguel Veloso is joining Allardyce at Bolton one minute and Blackburn the next. Come on lads, it’s not that hard.
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1 Comment to Memo to the national press: Sam Allardyce does not manage Bolton Wanderers
Yes, i am getting pretty sick of it, i try my best to look at as many different sites as possible (usually necessary to find a hint of truth about whats going on in the transfer window. There are so many lazy articles with wrong info or pictures on them. Today infact, i saw this; http://www.dailystar.co.uk/football/view/91460/Bolton-near-Lee-Chung-Yong-deal/
the article has two small paragraphs about Lee sitution coming along…then a massive picture of Big Sam for no real reason.
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July 29, 2009