LAST NIGHT, NEWS broke that England manager Sam Allardyce was holding shady meetings with businessmen about how to “get around” FA rules.
As part of an undercover sting, The Telegraph sent undercover reporters to meet with Allardyce so Big Sam could offer them advice on how to circumvent rules and regulations that prohibit third parties from ‘owning’ football players.
It’s looking as though the revelations may cost Allardyce his job, but that’s not even what people are most concerned about.
Instead people are obsessing over the fact that Allardyce is drinking something that looks an awful lot like a pint of wine in one of the photographs released by The Telegraph.
“Pint of Pinot Grigio, my man.”
And nobody can cope.
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But while the narrative of a man drinking a pint of wine is extremely irresistible, it must be asked — is he really drinking a pint of wine?
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According to The Telegraph, the meeting took place at Wing’s Restaurant in Manchester.
A quick gander on their website reveals that they have an extremely extensive wine menu. (And none of your standard house whites either.)
Their beer menu, by comparison, is very slight. But they do have a small selection of bottled beers and ciders on sale.
So, there are two possibilities:
1) Sam Allardyce really is a big ledge and ordered a “pint of wine” on a business meeting. (Or perhaps he ordered two glasses of wine and poured them into a pint glass because he felt more comfortable clutching a pint glass rather than a dainty wine glass. Who knows?)
2) He’e drinking beer and he’s the victim of bad lighting. Nothing more, nothing less.
Whatever the truth is, he’ll be remembered henceforth as the man who drank a pint of wine
He’s the stuff of legend now.
