Big Sam: Trap should eat his words

“I’M a bit Marmite-ish,” grins Sam Allardyce. “You either like me or you f***ing hate me.”

Mention the name Giovanni Trapattoni to the Blackburn Rovers manager, and it’s immediately clear that there’s certainly no love lost in this particular managerial relationship.

“I knew this was coming up,” says Allardyce. “We like each other, don’t we?”