Sam Allardyce
Sam Allardyce
Samuel "Sam" Allardyce, known as "Big Sam", is an English football manager and former professional player who is manager of the English national team...
ProfessionSoccer Player
Date of Birth19 October 1954
extremely finishing game good heavy last minutes paid price weekend
Where our finishing was very, very good last weekend it let us down tonight. We really should have put the game away in the first 90 minutes and we haven't done that and have paid a heavy price for it. We are extremely disappointed.
club confident enjoyed football matter quite rather settled sooner talking
It is not settled yet but we are still talking and want the matter settled sooner rather than later. I am quite confident about the outcome. He has always been very comfortable at the club and always enjoyed his football here.
decision frame
I'm still in the frame because no decision has been made yet.
award clear knew penalty
That was also a clear penalty but I knew when he didn't award us the first one it was going to be one of those nights.
demand manager next public seem
I would like to think the next manager is English. And the public seem to demand that at the moment.
gets needs opportunity
Jay-Jay just needs to play better when he gets the opportunity - it's that simple.
It is frustrating because I am ambitious, but that's out of my hands,
came produced
We produced so much and came away with so little at the end.
game gifted sides
We gifted the game to Newcastle, really, with not much between the two sides in the first half. They capitalized on what we should have done better with.
available becomes british confined europe job worldwide
Not at all. Like everything else in this country, every job that becomes available is a worldwide attraction, not just confined to Europe or the British Isles.
address area trying
It's an area we've been trying to address for a long time.
looking next
At the moment, I'm looking at being here next season.
forward hard level matches merit might seeing travelling
At this level all matches will be hard but we are here on merit and we look forward to seeing where we might be travelling in Europe.
cut expertise helped job mend possible process recovery staff surgeon three tremendous
El Hadji is on the mend and it is possible he could play. The surgeon has done the job as we expected, they were a tremendous find by our backroom staff because their expertise has helped cut the recovery process by two or three weeks.