Sam Allardyce named England boss
Sam Allardyce becomes the next England Manager.
Former Bolton Wanderers Manager and player Sam Allardyce has been named as the England Football Team’s manager.
The 61-year-old Allardyce, who was over looked by the FA 10 years ago for Sven-Goran Eriksson. Allardyce has developed a reputation of being somewhat of helping clubs avoid relegation. Although has often received criticism for his style of play he has always been proud to explain how he uses scientific methods of coaching.
A number of national newspapers are reporting that the FA only turned to Allardyce after Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger rejected the chance to take over from Hodgson.
Sam Allardyce career (in brief).
As a player he played for various clubs including Bolton, Sunderland and Preston North End.
His managerial career started as a player-coach at West-Bromwich Albion in 1990-91.
He then took up a role as a player-manager at Limerick in 1991 before heading back to Preston North End to take up the number-two post there the following year.
In July 1994 he took charge of second division Blackpool. They finished 12th in his first season and third 12 months later Allardyce was dismissed following a play-off semi-final defeat by Bradford.
January 1997, Allardyce went to Notts County and inherited a side which had struggled through the first half of the season. He was unable to prevent them from slipping into Division Three. However, he led the club to promotion as champions on 99 points at the end of the following campaign.
Perhaps he is most fondly remembered as a manager at Bolton Wanderers from 1999 to 2007. After two difficult seasons and eventually guided them to European qualification for the first time in the club's history.
He then went to Newcastle United in 2007 where his reign lasted just 24 games after new owner Mike Ashley decided to replace him with Kevin Keegan.
Allardyce followed his failure at Newcastle with success at Blackburn Rovers in December 2008. Here he managed to keep them in the Premier League after a poor start. They finished 10th in his first full campaign as manager, but new owners Venky's dispensed with his services in December 2010.
Allardyce returned to the game with relegated West Ham United in June 2011 and led them back into the Premier League via the Championship play-off final. His much criticised style of play did not sit happily with the expectations of Hammers' fans and although the club finished in mid table positions several years running he left in early 2015
Sunderland - Tasked with pulling off another great escape after Dick Advocaat bade farewell in October, Sunderland were still seven points away from safety at the start of January. However, they ended the season strongly with only champions Leicester beating them after February as Allardyce kept a top-flight relegation off his CV.