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Sam Allardyce has branded it “utter rubbish” that his Everton side are producing boring football.

The Blues boss insists he has overseen the squad playing “proper football” since he replaced Ronald Koeman at the end of November.

Allardyce says heavy defeats to Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal were “unacceptable” performances but has strongly railed against the notion Everton are not serving up crowd-pleasing displays.

He maintains his long-term Goodison future will be determined by results and performances, and when asked if the final 11 games of the season gives him a chance to disprove his reputation as a pragmatic manager, he told the ECHO: “That’s utter rubbish, isn’t it?

“The type of football we’ve produced isn’t rubbish, we’ve produced proper football in terms of what we’ve tried to achieve.

“The past reputation is not the reality if you ask the players, so you look at the football we’ve played since I’ve been here.”

Everton have picked up 19 points under Allardyce, winning five of their 13 league games while scoring 15 goals.

Defeats to Bournemouth, Manchester United, Spurs and Arsenal have seen the Blues ship 13 goals with Allardyce adding: “Some has not been so good because of the result, certainly the Tottenham and Arsenal ones were unacceptable, but the football we try and play suits the players we have here, suits the system we have which is part of their job and I’ve never played the same way at any football club I’ve ever been at.

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“Unfortunately, you have to live with the past sometimes, you can’t get rid of it. If people have blinkers on, I can’t take them off.”