The gamev may have moved on in recent years, but Sam Allardyce will always stick to basics.
He slammed his defenders earlier in the season saying "they try and play football - they aren't there to play football - they are there to kick the ball out of the danger area".
That probably sums up Big Sam more than anything. But on Saturday he may have had the fans at Craven Cottage falling asleep (as shown in the TV footage), but he picked up three valuable points. And that was the objective.
It was United's first clean sheet on their travels for over a year, and boy did Sam celebrate.
A contrast in sports, as Sam said: "I'd rather win ugly, than not all", another sportsman showed the other side of the coin.
Ronnie O'Sullivan won the UK Open in snooker and said afterwards: "I feel like I've given a lot to the people and I've given a lot to snooker in the way I play.