{"id":20537,"date":"2025-07-19T03:23:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T03:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/20537\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T03:23:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T03:23:21","slug":"mysterious-sam-allardyce-mural-appears-in-dudley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/20537\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Mysterious’ Sam Allardyce mural appears in Dudley"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elliot Ball<\/p>\n

BBC News, West Midlands<\/p>\n

\"BBCBBC<\/p>\n

A mural of football manager Sam Allardyce has appeared on Union Street in Dudley<\/p>\n

A 10ft mural of former England and West Bromwich Albion manager Sam Allardyce has appeared in Dudley. <\/p>\n

The artwork, depicting the former Premier League boss eating orange chips, a Black Country classic, is believed to have been pasted on to a wall in Union Street on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Allardyce grew up in Dudley and locals have suggested the area could now have its own Banksy. <\/p>\n

Resident Scot Simmons said: “How did he do it without anyone seeing? Did he just put it up in a couple of minutes? Is he trying to remain mysterious?”<\/p>\n

Fellow Dudley resident Andy Smith said: “Local lad eating orange chips, what more do you want? <\/p>\n

“There is a genuine Banksy in Birmingham, perhaps this is Dudley’s answer to Banksy.”<\/p>\n

Mr Simmons added: “Looking at it you don’t know how good it is till you come down and see it.<\/p>\n

“It’s put Dudley on the map. Big Sam, immortalised here, yeah it’s brilliant.”<\/p>\n

However, one man who worked nearby was not impressed.<\/p>\n

“Who is it? It’s just weird, it doesn’t make sense and it needs to go,” he said.<\/p>\n

‘Very good likeness’<\/p>\n

In a video message issued to ITV News, Allardyce said: “Just seen the mural that has been sent of me in Dudley, my home town. <\/p>\n

“Absolutely privileged to be honest with you, I thought it was a very good likeness.<\/p>\n

“Chips look a bit hot, but I really enjoyed seeing it. Whoever did it, thank you very much.”<\/p>\n

Allardyce managed Blackpool, Notts County, Bolton, Newcastle, Blackburn, West Ham and Sunderland during his career as well as having a short-lived spell as England boss.<\/p>\n

Orange chips are thought to be dipped in a batter with added turmeric or paprika to give them their distinctive colour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elliot Ball BBC News, West Midlands BBC A mural of football manager Sam Allardyce has appeared on Union…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-20537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}