Samuel Allardyce is an English football manager and former professional player. He made 578 league and cup appearances in a 21-year career spent mostly in the Football League. He was signed by Bolton Wanderers from Dudley Town in 1969 and spent nine years at Bolton, helping the club to win the Second Division title in 1977–78. He spent the 1980s as a journeyman player, spending time with Sunderland, Millwall, Tampa Bay Rowdies, Coventry City, Huddersfield Town, Preston North End, and West Bromwich Albion. He took up his first permanent management role in England at Blackpool in July 1994, but was sacked after two years having narrowly failed to achieve promotion. He left West Ham United in
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Samuel Allardyce is an English football manager and former professional player. He made 578 league and cup appearances in a 21-year career spent mostly in the Football League, as well as brief spells in the North American Soccer League and League of Ireland. He was signed by Bolton Wanderers from Dudley Town in 1969 and spent nine years at Bolton, helping the club to win the Second Division title in 1977–78. He spent the 1980s as a journeyman player, spending time with Sunderland, Millwall, Tampa Bay Rowdies, Coventry City, Huddersfield Town, Preston North End, and West Bromwich Albion. He took up his first permanent management role in England at Blackpool in July 1994, but was sacked after two years having narrowly failed to achieve promotion. In September 2006, he and his son, Craig, were implicated in a BBC Panorama documentary for taking bribes, allegations which they denied. He has been criticised for alleged corruption and has twice been the subject of undercover investigations. He takes a modern, technology and statistics centred approach to tactics and coaching, and has been praised for his organisational and man-management skills. He resigned as England manager in a mutual agreement with the Football Association on 27 September 2016. He left West Ham United in May 2015 after criticism from fans over his playing style. In October 2015, he was appointed Sunderland manager and saved the club from relegation. In November 2017, he took charge at Everton and remained in charge for a six-month period.
In December 2020, he will be appointed as West Baggies manager in December 2020. He is the son of Robert and Mary Agnes and has an older sister, Mary, born in Scotland in 1939 and an older brother, Robert junior, born in 1951. He discovered in later life that he suffers from dyslexia. As a child, he supported Wolverhampton Wanderers and dreamed that one day he would play at and manage the club. He trained with local Football clubs and had an unsuccessful trial with Aston Villa before leaving school at the age of 15, and signed an apprenticeship with Bolton. He rose through the B-team at the club and signed his first professional contract on his 17th birthday, receiving a £125 signing-on fee and wages of £14 a week. He also worked as an apprentice with Jimmy Armfield at Armfield’s factory producing record-breaking decks in Lancashire. He won the FA Youth Cup and reached the quarter-finals of the FA Cup, winning the Youth Cup, and reaching the last eight of the Capital One Cup. He was appointed as manager of the English national team for a brief spell in July 2016, before taking charge at Crystal Palace five months later. In May 2017 he announced his resignation in May 2017, after helping Palace to avoid relegation that season, He was appointed as Everton manager in November 2017 and remaining in charge of the club for six months. In July 2018 he was named as West Brom’s new manager.
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