Again you are talking about style and strategy, not effectiveness. Look, you can always point to instances and individual games and say no. Honestly, I'm not interested in the odd instance one can point to. The general trend with Allardyce is that he is effective over time, if he is allowed to do things his way. The England setup badly needs a bit of a morale boost after the last two tournaments and, although I would prefer Pep Guardiola or Jose Mourinho to be the manager that isn't going to happen. Yes, England could have ruined Eddie Howe's fledgling career, and found out that Steve Bruce was too nice a person after all. Personally, I think Allardyce is an experiment whose time has come. He's actually the closest relatively successful modern English manager I can think of to Brian Clough, and he doesn't work better with a Peter Taylor either. Although he doesn't have Clough's desire to play expansive football with any level of player, rather picking a style to suit the 11 he has, he is a man manager from a similar mould. Previously, recent England have been polite bumblers [apart from Capello] in the man management and motivation line. They sat in the match dugout with worried expressions while their counterpart walked about his technical area showing passion in directing his team. I want an England manager to show some passion. I want one who can clearly motivate. And England can't do much worse than they have done.
