No FA charge for Big Sam

The Football Association last night confirmed that West Ham manager Sam Allardyce would not face any disciplinary action for his comments criticising the officials following Wednesday night's 2-2 draw with Manchester United, which saw the Hammers denied what Big Sam described as " almost a famous win" by a late and clearly offside Robin van Persie equaliser.

The Irons boss was not happy and raged at a post match press conference, "the linesman needs better coaching, his bosses have got to look at it. If my players make those mistakes they get dropped. If you don't get it right you're out of the team, if he'd had better coaching, he could have made a better call."

Allardyce also appeared to break FA rule E3, which relates to questioning the integrity of match officials; the same one which a contravention of after West Ham's 1-0 FA Cup defeat to the same opponents in January saw him fined £8,000.

"He can see Van Persie is two yards offside and should put his flag up but he doesn't, it's blatant. Two minutes into the second half, we have a shot and the assistant referee puts his flag up, what's going on there?"

Maybe Big Sam's becoming the new Fergie.. the FA are big scared of Big Sam!

By Alex Shilling, News Editor

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