Wow!!! Football managers usually know how to talk. I really love this Sam's speech more than the one of Mourinho. However, the intelligence in their voices cannot be overemphasized.
Please read meaning into this :)
"This one is totally different," he said to
skysports.com . "We are fourth in the league this time we've got better players. We've got younger players and hopefully we will come and give a good account of ourselves and a good account of ourselves is a result not a good performance and a loss."
"I think that it's a compliment that a frustrated manager vents his frustration over the fact that he can't break the team he's playing against down and I think that frustration spilled over into his press conference.
"He felt he should have beaten us [in their last meeting] obviously because of the position we were in at the time and the position they were in.
"So it's always a compliment for me when a manager has a little pop at you about the way you played or what tactics you might have used because it means tactically you have been very good.
"You've done your job well, made sure the opposition have found it very difficult to break you down and not beaten you when everyone expected us to lose and we didn't it."
"We have obviously improved tremendously from where we were," he said. "But that doesn't make it any easier for us playing Chelsea at Stamford Bridge because of the force that they are, and because of the manager that he is – he is probably the best working club manager in the world at the minute on his track record. I don't think there is any doubt about that."
-Sam Allardyce (Westham Manager)