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OLIVER HOLT: Gambling on Big Sam isn't that crazy - at least he'll bring Leeds a clarity of style

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 2, 2023
OLIVER HOLT: There is a bible for delusions in case life gets out of control. 'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the medications took hold,' Hunter S. Thompson's book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas begins like this: "We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs took root.' A number of Premier League clubs are based in Barstow right now, too heavy on cash and panic and heading for the casinos, so get yourself up for a bad trip. And Sam Allardyce is at the wheel. It might seem that it is a hallucinogenic ride through half-forgotten backwaters of English football culture, but it isn't. Big Sam is back, disinterred from a life on the fringes of the game and his participation in the 'No Tippy Tappy Football' podcast, which has prompted him to rejoin the mainstream.