Sam Allardyce has named his sumptuous new Costa Blanca villa "Casa St James," because he bought it with his £4 million pay off from being sacked as Newcastle boss.
Add to this revelation his comments last week, more than two years after getting the boot, that: "Fan pressure (at Newcastle) is hostile towards the players. They don't really support the team as they should, they're very critical and the players can't handle that," and what do we have?
We have a manager who appears to have an unhealthy obsession he needs to get over.
Big Sam was never popular at Newcastle, but even down to his last game, a dreary 0-0 draw at Stoke in the rain, he was cheered off by the fans who he accuses of being "hostile" and wrecking it all. There is a picture to prove it. He is cheerily waving to the away end delighted with the result.
Getting the sack from your one big crack at a really big job must be a humiliating, frustrating business.
Shaking off a reputation as a purveyor of football based on the simple theory of POMO, booting the ball to the "position of maximum opportunity" in the box, must also be tough.
Realising you're never going to get the England job must hurt. Feeling the job you've done at Bolton and now Blackburn on limited budgets has never been fully recognised or valued must rankle.
But one word of advice for Big Sam. If you want to blame anyone for your Newcastle sacking, blame Mike Ashley.
Don't blame the Geordie fans, many of whom were giving you the benefit of the doubt. Don't blame the North East press, who you believed were "a miserable bunch, frustrated that we'd never got bigger jobs in London," misreading that our passion and roots were in the North East.
And please, sit down with one of your beloved football psychologists, get help for the mental scars your experience at Newcastle left behind.
