Sam Allardyce is the Manager of Blackburn Rovers and was appointed in December of 2008 taking over a club in a relegation battle after a poor start to the season with Paul Ince in charge. Allardyce had a varied playing career involving several clubs including Bolton Wanderers, Sunderland, Huddersfield Town and Millwall among others. Allardyce had various coaching roles before landing his first job in management which was at Blackpool before he moved onto Notts County where he was proved to be a bright young coach.

Achievements

Sam Allardyce led Notts County to promotion from the old Third Division in 1997/98 securing promotion by 19 points and the team and coach impressed fans and on-lookers alike. This led to Allardyce being picked up by former club Bolton Wanderers in 1999 when they were languishing in Division 1. Allardyce would go on to have a great time with Wanderers and led them to Play-Off success in the 2000/01 and the Trotters returned to the top-flight after a three year absence.

Bolton maintained their Premier League status and started to improve under the guidance of Allardyce and they finished in an excellent 8th place which was a huge feat for the unfashionable club. That was followed by even greater things the following season when the club finished 6th which saw European football at The Reebok Stadium for the first time.

Sam Allardyce had been a huge success at Bolton and this was confirmed when he was on the shortlist to become England Manager in 2006 and although he didn

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