Sam Allardyce

thank you for joining us and what have you been up to uh well as well as a little bit tv talk sports has been a good venue for me with alan brazil six till ten in the morning really enjoyed that um and then obviously a couple of scoops after as you well know with alan uh he's a great he's a great host and i think that uh family a lot of holidays uh so much time on my hands um

I've been able to get away and see the places we've wanted to see for many years, of course.

More time with all the grandkids.

As you well know, they're growing up fast.

I did, yeah.

You did?

I did, yeah.

I did get the Strictly offer.

Well, that's a long time ago now, that.

So I... The thought of the Strictly would have been OK, but the temptation of another job meant that if it came up...

I wouldn't have been able to fit it in.

So if I'd have done all that training and then said, I'm sorry, this club's coming for me and I'm leaving, you know what I mean?

So I wanted to be fair to everybody.

It does for me now, at the tender age I am now and the satisfaction of the career that I've had.

I think that me and Cammy were fighting way back in the early days to be managers.

He was at Bradford and I kept him in a job when I lost against Blackpool at Blackpool.

So it was tough in those days, making your way.

And, of course, when you've finally achieved all what you want to achieve, you sit back and reflect and then say, if it's going to be again, it has to be in the right terms, the right frame of mind, and the right onus to guide a football club to success.

Because you see too many onus today...

almost it becomes an obstructive partnership between the manager and the owner to get where you want to go.