Leicester shitty

[Fizzy Bread]

LOL

MARTIN ALLEN is getting his Leicester players ready for the new season by making them clean toilets.
The eccentric former Brentford and MK Dons manager set his team to work this week behind the scenes at the Walkers Stadium.

Allen — once nicknamed Mad Dog — said: “They have been in all the different parts of the ground, from IT, security, the shop, ticket office, maintenance — and cleaning out the toilets.

“When I told them what they had to do, it was a kind of a test. But not one of them whinged, pulled a face or gave it ‘I don’t want to do that.’

“This old thing about footballers being rich and famous and all different to you and me, I don’t agree with that. They are talented people but I think that if they are not prepared to do these jobs, I don’t really like them.”

Allen, 41, took part in a question-and-answer session with fans after the players trained in front of 2,000 supporters on Monday night.

He said: “I have done it at every club I have been at. It is good for the supporters and good for the players as well.

“I want to have a bond between them. It was a good night for the club, we are building little bridges and putting in building blocks for long-term development.

“Next year, we will do the same and there will be double the amount of people without a doubt.”

There's genius in his madness!

[GeoFox]

Mmmm I went to that night and he never said anything about cleaning out toilets - its justa misquote, but the rest is true. They did various jobs around the ground but he didn't say anything about anybody cleaning out the toilets. Which he said on Talksport again today.

Just crappy (haha ) journalism from the Sun!

[filbert85]

Like it, but I think the idea can be taken a step further.

In the same way as you have man of the match and the traditional bottle of champagne (do they still do that?), have the fans elect the worst performer of each game whose forfeit will be... you guessed it, cleaning out the loos!

Absolute genius! That ought to increase competition for places!

[siouxsie]

geofox said:

Mmmm I went to that night and he never said anything about cleaning out toilets - its justa misquote, but the rest is true. They did various jobs around the ground but he didn't say anything about anybody cleaning out the toilets. Which he said on Talksport again today.

Just crappy (haha ) journalism from the Sun!

I thought he did say something like "I'd clean the toilets" but I might be mistaken.

Oh well it's all publicity, even if it is a bit off the wall.

[GeoFox]

On a similar note....

In today's Daily Mail, Graham Poll gives his version of events over the toilet incident with Robbie Savage all those years ago. Both self-centered twats but I wonder if thats why Poll has always been such a crap ref to us:

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Robbie Savage and the vile 'joke' I could not stomach

Graham Poll tells his own story

EXCLUSIVE by LEE CLAYTON
Last updated at 21:09pm on 3rd August 2007 Comments

This is not for the squeamish. For the first time, this is the full account of what happened when Robbie Savage visited the referee's toilet.

I know there are some who will feel it was officious to report him. Some reports summarised his offence as "using the referee's toilet". But "using" does not tell the story of what he did.

Robbie was playing for Leicester, who were already relegated, and it was the penultimate game at their old Filbert Street stadium.

I had finished my warm-up when Savage burst into the officials' changing room. I asked him to leave but he said: "I've got to use your loo, I'm busting for a s**t." With that, he went into our toilet, sat down and, with the door wide open, he gave a running commentary as he defecated.

We could not believe what was happening. I saw his team-mate Matt Elliott in the corridor and asked if the toilets were working OK in the Leicester dressing-room. He confirmed this to be the case.



While Robbie was in the cubicle, Dennis Hedges, the match observer, entered the dressing-room. According to Robbie's version of events I said: "You'll never guess who is in our loo?" As if it was all a hoot.

If I did say that, it was in appalled astonishment and, when Robbie was finished, I told him that his behaviour was unacceptable.



"I'll leave it floating and you can see for yourself," he said. And he did, laughing as he left the room.



Now I was almost lost for words, but remarked that he should consider washing his hands. "No need," he replied. Then he promptly wiped his hands down the lapels of Dennis's jacket.



Now, I am not a prude. I have spent a lot of time around footballers. I am used to language and behaviour which, in other walks of life, would be considered crude. They don't bother me at all, normally, but Savage's behaviour was just horrible.

I wouldn't report a player for using my loo but wiping his hands down Dennis's jacket was being deeply disrespectful.

At the subsequent disciplinary hearing, he maintained that he had an upset stomach, but the Leicester dressing-room was less than 20 yards from ours.



Was what he did an attempt at a joke, as he has always maintained? Was it an attempt to belittle me or destablise me before a game? I don't know, but I knew that I had to report him.

The Leicester manager Micky Adams apologised when he learned how his player had behaved and the club fined him two weeks' wages, the maximum penalty they could impose.

The FA charged Robbie with improper conduct. Gordon Taylor, the chief executive of the PFA, represented him at the hearing and said that the matter should have been dealt with in a more sympathetic, less official way.



He added that it was common for players not to wash their hands after using the toilet before games, because they are so focused on the football.



Robbie produced a doctor's certificate to prove that he was on antibiotics at the time and said that he had been overwhelmed by his stomach upset.



He conceded, however, that he had managed to play a full 90 minutes and then attend a supporters' club function, but did not seem to notice any inconsistencies in that account.



Eventually, he was fined £10,000, subsequently appealed but lost and eventually paid up. I know that he still feels hard done by over the incident.



I managed to have one laugh at Savage's expense on another occasion, though.



He had committed a foul and when I was dealing with him, I said that I was in charge of the game, not him.



He said: "Yeah, but I've got more money than you." After a pause, he added: "Loads more money."



Towards the end of the match Savage asked how much time was left to play. I said: "Sorry, Robbie, I can only afford a cheap watch and it's broken."