Quote Originally Posted by Rjk View Post
Allardyce left Bolton 12 years ago.
Yes he embraced some modern ideas at the start of his career, but has failed to adapt in the last decade, when we have seen a big change in UK football.

He was on talkshite yesterday talking about teams playing out from the back and clearly demonstrated he had absolutely no idea why teams are doing it.
He obviously hasn't even tried to understand, just disregarded it as silly nonsense brought in by foreigners.
He's not a stupid guy, he absolutely could understand it if he made the effort, but he's not going to change now, but football has changed and he has been somewhat left behind.


I was gonna write something similar when I had time today