Allardyce slams 'arrogant' Wenger and blasts Benitez in new book
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Published 13/10/2015 at 09:53 GMT
Sam Allardyce has admitted he enjoys winding up 'arrogant' Arsene Wenger and has claimed Liverpool's Champions League win had 'nowt to do' with Rafa Benitez.
West Ham United's English manager Sam Allardyce (R) greets Arsenal's French manager Arsene Wenger (L) ahead of kick off of the English Premier League football match between West Ham United and Arsenal at the Boleyn Ground, Upton Park, in east London, on D
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The new Sunderland boss is serialising his autobiography, called 'Big Sam: The Autobiography' in The Sun, where he has taken aim at two of the leading foreign managers in Premier League history.
The Arsenal manager bears the brunt of Allardyce's scorn, with the former Bolton, Blackburn and West Ham boss insisting beating Wenger has always been his favourite pastime.
He claims to have taken great delight in their complaints about his side's tactics and style whenever they failed to get a result against him.
"I enjoyed beating Arsenal more than anyone when I was in charge at Bolton," declares Allardyce, "We'd really got to them and Arsene Wenger hated us.
"There was one time he wouldn't shake hands with me at Highbury because we got a draw. I saw him ripping his tie off and throwing it on the floor in anger.
"He takes it all very personally and has an air of arrogance."
Allardyce also couldn't resist a sly dig at former Liverpool and Chelsea boss Benitez, claiming that the Reds' Champions League final comeback from three goals down in 2005 had little to do with the Spaniard.
"Of course he can say he won the Champions League with Liverpool, which is something I never did. But it was nowt to do with him."
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