He did ok for Wales, was close to reaching Euro 2004 - beating Italy in qualifying. He took Blackburn into the UEFA Cup, 2 7th place finishes in the PL and 3 consecutive cup semis. He got the City job for a reason.
With Blackburn? Semi finals the best they did I think. I don't see why he gets all the blame for QPR getting relegated though, Redknapp had plenty time to sort that out and did **** all. He took them down.
i nearly met the great man i was 2 seconds away last season he was interviwing people in the upper north everone saying you just missed big ron gutted i was
How the **** is he Irish? Knew his dad, little West Indian geezer, postman in North London. Mum might of been a tea caddy I suppose. But Chris is no more Irish than Tony Cascarino.
Hughes won't be having as much of a free reign here at Stoke as most will think. He is just the face of the club and all the technical stuff will be done behind the scenes. Coates is no mug and will not let him do to us what he did to QPR. 90% of Stoke fans don't want him with some even putting up banners and even one converting a pick up truck and driving around the city! We have him and so we will see. Watching football under Pulis for the past few seasons has been dire so anything other than that has got to be an improvement for us!
Next you'll be telling me Mick McCarthy is English? <sniggersmiley> (but look, it's 'might have' not 'might of' - if you have to use mockney slang about the Irish in that fashion, get the other bits right fs, or you just look a tit)
Bruce is at least a good Championship manager, as evidenced by him getting our shower of ****e promoted, and Allardyce deserves more credit than he gets. Hughes is completely abysmal though
Aye but that doesn't make him a good manager. Bruce, Hughes and Allardyce are chronically inconsistent when they get into the premier league.
Allardyce had a small club like Bolton consistently finishing in the top half of the table, even qualifying for Europe and getting to the league cup final. Attracted some quality players to the Reebok (Djorkaeff, Okocha, Gudjonssen, Campo, Hierro) too. Did well at Newcastle till they sacked him for nothing. And comfortably kept West Ham up last season.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2009/jan/15/sam-allardyce-newcastle-united-blackburn This is about the best summation i've read about the reign of Sam Allardyce at Newcastle United - he really was killing the club with his ultra-negative tactics and shocking transfer deals.
