The appointments of Allardyce, Pardew, Moyes et al have caught flak but foreign managers from Pep Guardiola to Marco Silva are shining and likewise Englishmen such as Sean Dyche and Eddie HoweIt is a little more than a month since Sam Allardyce appeared alongside Richard Keys and Andy Gray in their TV studio in Doha and moaned, without a hint of irony, about foreigners taking all the plum jobs. Well, more or less. What Allardyce claimed exactly was British managers are viewed as “second class” in their own country and have “nowhere to go” because the Premier League is a “foreign league in England”.Nonsense then and even more so in a week when Allardyce took charge at Everton and Alan...
Palace have taken drastic action to ensure they stay in the Premier League but the man they have lined up to replace Alan Pardew brings a history of suspicionSurvival in the Premier League is everything but even though he undoubtedly represents the best chance of Crystal Palace extending their stay in England’s top flight for a fifth successive season, the impending appointment of Sam Allardyce to replace Alan Pardew at Selhurst Park is one that will fill many supporters with dread.It is less than three months since Allardyce was ousted as the England manager before he had even named his second squad as the result of the Daily Telegraph sting that showed him negotiating a fee of £400,000 to represent...
Allardyce has never been relegated from the top flight in his managerial career, which makes him a natural choice to succeed Alan Pardew at Crystal PalaceThere will be no need for a public outcry should Sam Allardyce, as is widely anticipated, return to management with Crystal Palace before the year is out. The same year when his long-held ambition of becoming England manager was realised and then curtailed a mere 67 days later, the shortest reign of any permanent Football Association appointment, after being in charge for a single game. Allardyce is simply too capable an operator to stay out on the sidelines for long.That was what earned him a crack at the England job in the first place and...
Crystal Palace manager disgraced himself by head-butting David Meyler at the KCom Stadium when in charge of a listing Newcastle United in 2014, and his Selhurst Park reign looks to be in similarly choppy watersAlan Pardew does not really do sheepish but if and, almost certainly when, he comes face to face with David Meyler on Saturday Crystal Palace’s invariably assured manager will surely look a little uncomfortable.There might be a slightly awkward handshake and, perhaps, a rueful smile as Pardew returns to the scene of the ‘crime’ and relives the awful afternoon of 1 March 2014 when he inexplicably head-butted the Hull City midfielder. Related: Alan Pardew has chairman’s backing before critical fixture at Hull City Related: Alan Pardew...