Dr Sam Allardyce

[thebish]

FORMER Bolton Wanderers manager Sam Allardyce and Nobel Prize winner Sir Harry Kroto are among the well-known faces to be awarded honorary doctorates by the University of Bolton this week.

Allardyce will tomorrow be given an honorary doctorate for his pioneering work in the use of science and statistics in football.

[InsaneApache]

Good for him. He did well for us until the very end. He wasn't a bad defender either. Good call IMO.

[William the White]

Was at the ceremony today. Graduates in Psychology, Art and Humanities. Sam gave an acceptance speech charmingly devoid of humility, but a real fondness for bolton - he was only 17 when he arrived here - shone through.

the ceremony took about half an hour longer than normal because about 25% of the graduating students wanted a picture with Sam as well as the VC. And he was charming about that.

Charm and Sam Allardyce in same sentence shock...

[TANGODANCER]

Nice touch. The town recognising someone who gave us some pride in ourselves. Good on both.

[Worthy4England]

Wonder will they hand out 15,000 honarary degrees in a couple of years time for anyone who had to watch the last couple of seasons?

Nice touch for BSA.

[Puskas]

More from the Morning News - apparently one of the recipients of an honorary doctorate was Gordon Hargreaves:
http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/827 ... r_Big_Sam/

Presumably _the_ Gordon Hargreaves? What was that for - services to openness in business? Innovations in awarding contracts for building stadia?

I think we should be told.

As an aside, I'm not sure I agree with the awarding of honorary doctorates. As Richard Feynmann once said - would you get your house rewired by an honorary electrician? It devalues the work that people writing theses for several years have put in.