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
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.
soccer football santa
I'm not going to make a present of Santa.
football hamstrings hopefully
Hopefully Andy Carroll has only tweeted his hamstring.
football giving league
I couldn't give a s***! He just can't take it. Good old Jose, moaning again.
football hate perception
I hate perception. There's far too much of it in football
football world
You know the FA's the richest football association in the world? Well, I shouldn't say that. They're not the richest at all. What they do is they have the biggest turnover in the world with £325m.
football today produce
Today was about our lack of ability to not produce the ability we've got.
entertainment fancy football however incredibly job losing money necessity object playing progress today
Incredibly average, ... There wasn't much entertainment today but necessity overrules entertainment and necessity's money these days. You'll keep your job by winning, not by going out and playing fancy football and losing 5-4. The object is to try and keep your progress going, however you can.
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.
mend possible
El Hadji is on the mend and it is possible he could play at Newcastle.
achieve aim aspire beyond dream european ultimate
Our aim all those years ago was for Bolton to achieve European qualification, and then beyond that to do it consistently - we made it our ultimate dream to aspire to,
best difficult tried
Everyone tried their best to get that all-important 1-0. It's going to be very difficult now, but we've got a chance.
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.