Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal was armed with A4 sheets of stats when he turned up to his news conference this afternoon.
The 63-year-old was attempting to discredit West Ham boss Sam Allardyce's claim they used long-ball tactics in Sunday's 1-1 Premier League draw.
Van Gaal even distributed the pamphlet to journalists and encouraged them to make copies.
Van Gaal very indignant. Ended up telling us to take it off him. "Copy it and present it to Big Sam." Here is one: pic.twitter.com/kHsc4gjU9s
— Daniel Taylor (@DTguardian) February 10, 2015
"When you have nearly 60-per-cent ball possession - do you think you can do that with long balls?" asked the Dutchman.
"Yeah, long balls in width to switch the play. You have to look at the data and then you can see."
Listen to part of his press conference here:
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