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| daib0 | 20 Jul 2016, 08:20 PM Post #1 |
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BBC Sport Sam Allardyce: Sunderland boss will be named as new England manager Sam Allardyce will be named as the new England manager - with confirmation expected in the next 24 hours Allardyce will leave Sunderland after nine months at the Premier League club. The 61-year-old replaces Roy Hodgson, who resigned after the surprise defeat by Iceland at this summer's Euro 2016 finals in France. Allardyce, a former West Ham, Newcastle and Bolton boss, spoke to the Football Association last week and has been chosen ahead of Hull's Steve Bruce. The only remaining issue to be settled is compensation to Sunderland, with Allardyce having a year left on his contract at the Stadium of Light. The FA board meets on Thursday, when it is expected Allardyce's appointment will be officially confirmed. Both Sunderland and Hull had urged the FA to act quickly, with the new Premier League season less than a month away. Allardyce was interviewed for the England job following Sven-Goran Eriksson's departure after the 2006 World Cup but Steve McClaren was appointed. His first competitive game in charge will be a World Cup qualifier in Slovakia on 4 September. Allardyce will become the 15th permanent England boss, the pinnacle of a managerial career that started at Blackpool in 1994 and has taken in 467 Premier League games - behind only Sir Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger and Harry Redknapp. He has never won a major trophy but did secure promotion to the Premier League with both Bolton and West Ham, and won Division Three with Notts County in 1998. As a player, Allardyce started at Bolton in the 1970s before spells at Sunderland, Millwall, Coventry, Huddersfield, West Brom, Irish club Limerick and US side Tampa Bay Rowdies before ending his career at Preston. Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe and USA coach Jurgen Klinsmann had also been linked with the job. FA chief executive Martin Glenn told BBC sports editor Dan Roan earlier on Wednesday that the new manager would need to "build resilience" in players so they are able to deal with criticism on social media and the pressures of an "intensely passionate" English media. "The British press, like it or not, are probably the most intensely passionate about the game in the world and that has a spill-over effect," he said. "The consequence of which is people probably play not to make a mistake, as opposed to play to win. So the new manager's got to be someone who can inspire people to get the best out of themselves, build resilience and unashamedly adopt the kind of psychological techniques that other sports and other football teams have done." Sunderland will now be looking for a ninth permanent manager in less than eight years. Key facts & figures Allardyce has never won a major trophy as a manager He has a 33.6% Premier League career win percentage Sunderland's average possession last season was 39.94% 21% of their passes were 'long', compared with 14.4% at Eddie Howe's Bournemouth Sunderland were seven points adrift of safety at the start of January - but lost just one of final 11 games to escape relegation Allardyce on management "I don't think there is any coach more sophisticated than me any more" - as West Ham manager, February 2015 "I would be more suited to Inter Milan or Real Madrid... I would win the double or the league every time" - as Blackburn boss in September 2010 "Maybe my external look isn't to everybody's liking. It was the right time and the right job for me but not from the FA's point of view" - in 2009, on missing out on the England job three years earlier Reaction Former Norwich, Blackburn, Chelsea and Celtic striker Chris Sutton on BBC Radio 5 live: "I'm delighted because I've been fed up with fantasy football - you've got to be a realist. Football is about winning. If you win by being direct or by playing a possession game it doesn't matter. Sam has never been given an opportunity at a top, top club to win a title but has done a terrific job wherever he has been. He will get the best out of the tools at his disposal - that's the most important thing." Ex-Blackpool and England player Jimmy Armfield: "I signed him as a player when I was manager of Bolton. He was a fighter and he's still prepared to scrap. I think he will try to instil some what I call 'club confidence'. He will get a team spirit, get the dressing room right." Former Leicester striker and BBC pundit Steve Claridge: "I don't think the bar is particularly high. It's a sensible appointment. People will have question marks about things but he just has to get them set up properly and give the players a chance." |
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| Bahamoth | 20 Jul 2016, 09:04 PM Post #2 |
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He'll do as well as any of the others, of course. I expect failure and to hate watching England playing. |
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| Gwent Royal | 20 Jul 2016, 10:19 PM Post #3 |
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Same old again then. Hasn't worked before, doubt it will now. Needed fresh ideas not old has beens |
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| Zip | 21 Jul 2016, 06:55 AM Post #4 |
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Disappointing. This is an uninspiring appointment. Would have much preferred Klinsmann
Edited by Zip, 21 Jul 2016, 06:56 AM.
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| Tilehurstsouthbank | 21 Jul 2016, 07:34 AM Post #5 |
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Yet again the FA prove what an out of touch bunch they are. Welcome back to the 1980's people, where Football violence is king and the England team play 'Hoofball'! |
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| Darlington | 21 Jul 2016, 11:40 AM Post #6 |
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What a complete and utter waste of time and money in deciding this. We will now get a physical side who will try to grind out results. Gone will be any free flowing football. In will be old has beens like Defoe instead of pushing forward the youth with skill and speed we have now. The biggest laugh is some nob head like Chris Sutton spouting this "I'm delighted because I've been fed up with fantasy football - you've got to be a realist. Football is about winning." It is about winning so let's get a manager who DOESN'T WIN MUCH. FACT:- Allardyce has never won a major trophy as a manager. FACT:- He has a 33.6% Premier League career win percentage So he wins 1 in 3 games not exactly a ratio to win things is it. We have ten games in the world cup qualifying and in all honesty when you look at the teams you'd expect to win them all but under Sam's 1 in 3 regime we may win 3 or 4. 12 points won't see us through. The FA wouldn't notice forward thinking and tactics if it got up and slapped them on the face. Instead they sit there as they have for the last 100 years with their heads buried in the sand. Edited by Darlington, 21 Jul 2016, 11:41 AM.
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| cribsie | 21 Jul 2016, 03:14 PM Post #7 |
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The appointment brought to mind a previous England manager... ![]() |
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| daib0 | 21 Jul 2016, 03:32 PM Post #8 |
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But just think of the new enthusiasm about to hit us lads ... ![]() Now he's on the International stage ... ![]() But on that last pic forget the pie shop, we need real proteins to make the England team really click! ![]() |
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| daib0 | 22 Jul 2016, 10:04 AM Post #9 |
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good piece in the Telegraph ... Why Sunderland are the innocent victims of England's diabolical failure Starts: Nobody has suffered more because of England’s diabolical European Championship than Sunderland, a club paralysed by the Football Association’s search for a new manager ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/07/20/why-sunderland-are-the-innocent-victims-of-englands-diabolical-f |
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| Madejski | 22 Jul 2016, 02:08 PM Post #10 |
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Best English manager available. Doesn't say much though.. |
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