Alan Brazil has urged Marcelo Bielsa on talkSPORT to “sling” his famous blue bucket at Leeds United.
The Argentine has caught the eye at United this season by watching matches on the iconic stool rather than sitting in the dugout at Elland Road.
Brazil and his guest pundit Sam Allardyce tried the bucket out for size on Tuesday morning but the former striker was left distinctly unimpressed when the ex-England boss sat on it.
“You look like one of my granddaughters,” Brazil told Allardyce on the Alan Brazil Sport Breakfast. “You can’t see anything there. Ridiculous, ridiculous. You’ve got to be up high, not down lower. Sling it.”
? "I'd prefer to be in the stands than that low down. All you'd see is legs!"
????? "You could stand on it and see over fences though!"
We've received Bielsa's #LUFC bucket at talkSPORT Towers…
… but Alan Brazil and Sam Allardyce aren't convinced by it! ? pic.twitter.com/JuGNrNVH1e
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OPINION
Allardyce made a good point by saying that he preferred to watch matches from the director’s box, as it gave him a far better view than in the dugout, where manager gets only a limited view. What he should have pointed out in Bielsa’s defence, as an experienced manager who would surely have been to Leeds’ home stadium plenty of times, is that the Elland Road dugout is actually below pitch level. This means Bielsa gets a better vantage point than he would otherwise get by sitting on the iconic bucket, which has become a piece of kit that English fans now associate with the unorthodox Argentine. Of course, Bielsa would be better off standing up to watch the action, rather than professorially analysing from his bucket, which is now sold in the Leeds club shop for £80. He only tends to get to his feet in the second half of matches, particularly when the outcome is in doubt and he feels the players require some instructions.