I think this will prove to be the worst decision Sam Allardyce has made in his long career..He is leaving a club where he is loved by the fans, to take on the England job where he will get slaughtered by both fans and the press the minute things go wrong..
or the best decision if he gets any success, he will be in the history books forever ,when he does leave or sacked all clubs will want him thats for sure win ..win from my angle.
Not a chance..he will not be given long enough to sort things out before the wolves start to bite..In fact, listening to the BBC radio phone in this evening, he was getting loads of stick before he has even got the job.
It got a bit of a mixed reaction on Talksport last night from the callers but yes I tend to agree with you.
Worst decision? Maybe, but he's wanted that job for long enough, so now he is welcome to it and all the pitfalls and hoodoo's it brings with it. This time next year he will probably be back retired in the spanish sun.
Not sure about being wanted if he's been sacked. There doesn't look to be a huge queue lining up to sign Roy. HOWEVER, If he is a success, then as you rightly say, he gets into the history books for THE RIGHT REASONS. There's even a precedent for a knighthood. HOWEVER, With the players currently available to him, what's the chances of his winning the next World Cup? Somewhere between none at all and that fabled snowball in Hell, I think.
Sam Allardyce will walk into a PL job if he wants one, regardless of how he gets on as England manager.
He'll retire. The only reason he didn't retire before joining us is because we're a club he'd always wanted to manage
Hodgson's not really got that firefighter record though has he? Even then, he might not be out of work for long, Leeds will sack their manager soon. For me, Sam is guaranteed another PL job no matter what happens for him as England manager, like Bri says, he could retire also, nobody knows.
Not sure mate. Reputations are ruined in that job for me. Too much pressure for the average manager. Hoddle, Venables, Sven, McClaren so on and so on. Hardly done too well after leaving the FA
Totally agree with RAW. Smug posted something similar a few days back. He'll get slaughtered by the press - "hoofball", "dinosaur" - and fail in an impossible job, like McClaren, Sven, Capello, etc.
Hoddle went straight back to PL management I think. Venables went to the Socceroos which was about as prestigious as the *****lian national job back then. Didn't Sven go to Notts County in league 2? And McClaren to some Dutch team no one outside Holland had heard of.
For what its worth i think Sam will do well at England if he can get the under performing tossers to actually play for the shirt. That is his main attribute, getting the players to believe in themselves and the building of a team. I also reckon he would get a job in management after his England stint if he wanted it no matter how well or poorly he does.
Sven got the City job mate. McClaren worked for Twente, Wolfsburg and Newcastle. Venables maybe the only one which your statement means anything for. Even Graham Taylor ended up back in the PL. It's not suicide, maybe some Sunderland fans are thinking that cos you liked him and he probably won't win owt with England, but he'll work again, in this league, if he wants to.
Fair play on Sven I forgot City. Twente were a tiny dutch team before Steve did well there though. He wouldn't have left Boro for them. He had to take any job he could and rebuild. The fact Taylor got a pl job proves me wrong though as he was a ****ing clown.
