Big Sam Committed To The Wanderers

Last updated : 13 February 2006 By Matt Bottom
Allardyce said, "I am committed to the club and to the players, I am contracted to them.

"Whatever comes around in the end, you get on with it, accept it.

"The players are not being distracted and I am not allowing myself to be distracted."

Allardyce added: "I am trying not to talk about it too much, and focussing on what I am paid to do, and that is getting results for Bolton."

Meanwhile, Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has blasted Bolton Wanderers' 'time-wasting' tactics at the end of yesterday's 1-1 draw at Highbury.

"We had so many young players at the back and were 1-0 down against an experienced side who used all the tricks which are creeping into the English game now," the Arsenal boss said.

"You would like the referees to show a little bit more authority to make the game respected.

"You know now that when you are 1-0 down the players will dive, at every change the player takes two minutes, at every goal-kick you have to shout to the referee to get the keeper to take it.

"I find it personally terrible to take for people who pay to watch games and I would like referees to respond much better to these situations.

"They come up with one or two minutes more injury time but that is not the answer. People do not want to see people lie down on the pitch when they have nothing."

Wenger insisted his complaint was not just with Bolton.

"I do not look at especially one team. It does not matter who has crept it in, the referees have not to accept it," he added.

"It has got much worse and is predictable. That is not what you want to see.

"That was not football what you see there. You want to watch football, not time-wasting."

Bolton manager Sam Allardyce said his side did nothing any other sides in the Premiership would have done in a similar position.

"We ran down the clock like everybody else. If you have possession of the ball, you try to keep it," he said.

"There is no rule you have to sprint off the pitch is there? And they will do the same if they are winning 1-0 away from home.

"He should not have a whinge about us. He should worry about himself and his own team."