Big Sam once so angry he smashed through dressing room door like Jack Nicholson
Footie manager Sam Allardyce was like Jack Nicholson in The Shining when he smashed his way into a dressing room to confront a player.
Former Fulham striker Leroy Rosenior said it took 20 men to hold back Big Sam after he put his fist through the door.
Pundit Leroy, 56, said: “We were playing at Huddersfield. Jeff Hopkins was a lovely fella but he mistimed a tackle and broke the opponent’s leg.
“It was horrible. Jeff was ashen-faced and, amid uproar, he was sent back to the dressing room.
“Allardyce was playing and wanted revenge. You could see it in his eyes.
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“Towards the end of the game, I went off injured, and was sitting in the dressing room with a crestfallen Jeff, when suddenly a fist came through the door.
“It belonged to Big Sam and it was like something from a horror film. Jeff and I scrambled into the
showers as Sam was pulled away by about 20 men!”
In cult horror movie The Shining, Nicholson’s character Jack Torrance loses his mind in a ghostly hotel after being taken over by supernatural forces.
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The most famous scene in the Stanley Kubrick flick, which is based on a book by Stephen King, sees Jack going after his wife Wendy, played by Shelley Duvall.
He takes an axe to a bathroom door before sticking his head through the broken panels while yelling: “Here’s Johnny!”
Leroy said West Brom manager Sam, 66, wasn’t the only defender players were scared of in his day.
In new book Thou Shall Not Pass, by Leo Moynihan, he tells how Arsenal star and fellow football pundit Martin Keown, 54, was also a man to be feared.
Leroy remembered: “He’d send shivers down the spine.
“Martin was a good player but he had these shark eyes and you didn’t know what was going to happen next.”
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