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Premier League Hot or Not: Big Sam, Liverpool reserves, Moss, Berahino
What’s sexy, and what’s unsexy, in football this week…
HOT
Big Sam
The Sunderland manager showed he was up for the relegation scrap by clumping a couple of Norwich substitutes early doors in Saturday’s six-pointer at Carrow Road, and his players put in a similarly feisty display as they revived their survival hopes with a clinical 3-0 win. Perhaps it was the sight of Allardyce thumping his chest on the touchline and doing his traditional ‘Staying Up’ war dance that spooked Andre Wisdom and Sebastien Bassong into the goal-conceding mistakes that set the Black Cats on their way to an imperative victory. If Big Sam manages to pull off this great escape, his ego could reach bursting point.
Big Rafa
The margin of Newcastle’s 3-0 triumph against Swansea may have been flattering on the Magpies, but Rafa Benitez’s first Premier League win for almost three years suddenly opens up the prospect of him ending this season as an unlikely hero. Despite playing so badly for such a long time, Newcastle are just three points adrift of safety with a couple a winnable fixtures in their run-in. Crucially the Toon Army seem to have warmed to the Spanish waiter, not surprisingly given his unarguable pedigree and the fact that this time last year they were being managed by John Carver.
Liverpool reserves
Amid the mayhem of West Ham’s dramatic extra-time FA Cup replay win against Liverpool a couple of months ago, it was easily forgotten that the Reds side which had matched the in-form Hammers over two games was obscenely inexperienced in comparison to their opponents. But several of the youngsters who shone in that tie were back in the limelight for the Premier League match against Bournemouth - and once again they proved equal to the task. The likes of Connor Randall, Brad Smith, Kevin Stewart, Sheyi Ojo would likely be lost among the mega-squads of other “big clubs”, but Jurgen Klopp’s bravery in playing them is being repaid.
NOT
Arsenal
This was the weekend the Gunners’ most optimistic fan (his name’s Clive, from Hertfordshire) finally accepted that Arsene Wenger’s side are 100 per cent definitely not going to win the league this season. Meanwhile, the home draw against Crystal Palace was also the moment the club’s most pessimistic supporter, some guy called Leroy, became convinced that Arsenal are definitely going to miss out on the top four. There would certainly be an element of poetry to it if the Gunners failed to qualify for the Champions League in the Premier League season that was supposed to be the easiest of a generation. When we say “poetry”, we mean “comedy”.
Jonathan Moss
Rarely has a referee been so widely and so lavishly pilloried as the man who officiated Leicester’s potentially season-defining 2-2 draw against West Ham. The managers appeared flabbergasted, the players abused him during and after the game, while the pundits lined up to wax lyrical about his incompetence. The most unfortunate thing for Moss is that the game’s key moment - his decision to book Jamie Vardy for diving - was a brave and totally justified move. It’s just a shame that he had previously booked Vardy for nothing, and that he seemed to be a funny mood with regards to his definition of what constitutes a penalty.
Saido Berahino
Neither of the spot-kicks the West Brom striker took against Watford on Saturday were actually that terrible, but it would be just his luck that Hornets keeper Heurelho Gomes twice dived the right way and saved both of them - marking the first stop with a goading celebration of almost Martin Keown-RVP-like proportions. It means Berahino becomes only the third player in Premier League history to miss two penalties in a single game (it also happened to Juan Pablo Angel and Darren Bent) - a fact that rather sums up what he will doubtless look back upon as a toilet of a season.
