Allardyce: "The media here is probably more volatile and more unacceptable than I expected here".
Asked to describe his relationship with Rafael Benitez, Allardyce was pointed: "Average - a bad average I would say," he said. "He doesn't like me."
Why? "Because we beat them. And Bolton were not supposed to beat a team like Liverpool. We played a different game with different rules, apparently. But I didn't see any referee's report saying we played outside the rules, so it was just a bit of self-protection [from BenÍtez].
"I don't see why I won't be inviting him in for a glass of wine afterwards. I went in for a glass of wine when Liverpool beat us 2-0 and he'd spoken about me in the papers the day before. I was big enough to walk in and test how good his red wine is."