Sam Allardyce

[LucaAltieri]

His first squad will be interesting.

 

Wonder if there will be a coaching role for Nolan.

 

Coaching role? Starting 11.

[Guest chopey]

Best man for the job IMO

[gjohnson]

Any odds on how many so called stars will "retire" from England?

Could see Rooney jacking it in from now that his place is under threat from Defoe ?

[Guest]

Think it was Wullie that nailed it, he'll stutter along to qualification where the FA will just hope he makes us hard to beat and he does a Greece or Portugal.

[Guest chopey]

Rooney will find it hard to get a game anywhere next season

[gjohnson]

FA board consisting of 12...get that 12! all considered him to ve the best man for the job. That's not incompetence..that's taking the p***.

 

 

Think even Lee Clark would have been a better option

 

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Terrible manager - no wonder England are shit all the time when they keep appointing people of this standard

 

They actually keep appointing people much better than this, so I'm not looking forward to what happens next.

[Tooj]

"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."

 

Yup, Allardyce totally fits that bill.

[Leek]

Dont really know what the FA are thinking like but in some ways I see why he could be a pretty good choice but only because I se it in the way that England are pretty shit and full of one dimensional players who only have one or two good attributes then thats it. The only players who have a decent set of attributes are probably Smalling, Rooney, Sturridge and Barkley and none of them are world class the rest just stand out for their clubs because they fit an ideal role. Allardyce knows how to set a team up and get players to perform to their best qualities so I think would be good in a tournament type scenario, I just dont reckon the FA thought it through like that though.

[Wullie]

Think it was Wullie that nailed it, he'll stutter along to qualification where the FA will just hope he makes us hard to beat and he does a Greece or Portugal.

 

Yet they don't seem to realise the calibre of manager that it even took to manage those victories.

 

Otto Rehhagel has three Bundesliga titles and a European trophy, amongst a host of other cups

Fernando Santos has a Portuguese league title and several other trophies.

Sam Allardyce finished 6th once then got knocked out of Europe early.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

And he's worked with about 4 international-level footballers.

[Wullie]

And he's worked with about 4 international-level footballers.

 

He signed Jay-Jay Okocha tbf, and he counts for about 10. So good they named him twice!

[KaKa]

Some pretty exciting young talent coming through for England, and they have entrusted Allardyce with utilising them to their full potential. Insane.

[thomas]

Ahahahaha

[Guest]

Michael Owen's Twitter reaction. :lol:

[SEMTEX]

He's an egotistical cunt, which is probably something we need in an England manager in my opinion. Someone who just does what he thinks is best, because he's a strong-willed individual.

 

There's a slight downfall of this theory though, given what Sam Allardyce thinks is best, is undoubtedly terrible in every way.

[Karjala]

Worst England manager appointment for a long time. He's done pretty much fuck all and is known to setup for some awful football displays.

[Mr Logic]

Incredible. (In an astoundingly ludicrous way).

[Hanshithispantz]

Ah well, fuck England.

[Dave]

So this is actually real. What a cunt.

[BONTEMPI]

Atrocious appointment. The FA needs a good shake up.

[SEMTEX]

Honestly I would've preferred a random ex-player with no management experience. A Klinsmann-esque appointment.

 

Maybe we could've given the job to Michael Owen or Owen Hargreaves. They're both inspirational commentators after all.

[Hanshithispantz]

They need fucking shooting. The only comparison to this incompetence I can think of is if the top brass at BMW decided to replace their wheels with blocks of cement.

[Guest firetotheworks]

It's comfortably the worst appointment in my lifetime. Even Graham Taylor nearly won the league at one point and McClaren had had a decent cup run with Middlesboro and was the knee-jerk reaction to the perceived pitfalls in having a foreign manager. Allardyce has achieved absolutely nothing, got nowhere near to achieving anything on any level and moans about not getting a chance at Real Madrid or Barca despite having been given fair cracks of the whip, with a good budget, at Newcastle, Blackburn and West Ham and supporters of all couldn't stand him, the way his teams played, and the position he left them in. He's been living off this idea of getting bad teams playing good football and getting good results since 2007, despite moving onto bigger and better teams since then and turning every one of them into relegation fodder, presumably so that he can then get the plaudits when 'he' saves them from the drop.

 

It's just funny, Sunderland fans should be absolutely delighted.

[Tubestationatmidnight]

Ridiculous appointment and that's me done with England hope they get hammered every game they play.

All the hype that comes with England and all the craving to win a tournament one day and out of all the managers they could pick in the world they pick fat sam!

 

Just fuck off