The Best of Goals on Sunday - Sam Allardyce
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What has Sam Allardyce been doing outside of football?
Good morning. How are you?
I am well, Cammy.
Yeah, I watched you last night. I thought you were great.
I know, every week until I get knocked out of this. Well, hopefully I don't get knocked out. Hopefully I don't want to win it.
How many weeks is it? Well, it's all the way till Christmas. All the way till Christmas. So I hope I'm watching you all the way till Christmas.
I love that.
It was really, really good.
But I hope you're not going to sit here and analyse that.
Every single week. Analyse my performance.
I had that from the judges.
Yeah, you were great.
Thank you. What have you been up to?
Well, yesterday I was at Bournemouth, had a good long chat with Eddie Howe. He's going to come on very, very soon. And I was sat in amongst the West Ham United fans. They were brilliant, supported their team all the way through and very respectful. Well done, West Ham.
And joining us on the sofa today, a manager with over 1,000 games under his belt who's taken charge of a record seven Premier League clubs.
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.
Why did Sam Allardyce turn down the Strictly Come Dancing offer?
Did you get the Strictly offer, though?
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.
Taking your time just away from football now, does it give you a time to reflect and kind of wait for that right call to happen?
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.
It's particularly in the Premier League because there's that many influential people now in the game that the distance between you and the owner is greater with the amount of people you have to work with in between. and you wonder where the messages are going and where you get to. So it can really restrict a manager, even down to his players today. I'm not so sure a manager actually buys the players anymore. Certainly there's big influences. My last club, Everton, there were big influences that you had to take into consideration and come to the right decision. I'm not saying that's right or wrong. What I am saying, if it's right, that's fine. If it's wrong... then the recruitment becomes a disaster, but you pay the penalty.
Nobody else. You get the sack. And if part of those recruitment policies have not been your tick, then you fall foul to the fact that you're working with some players that you've considered not to be good enough. And that is a big pressure on you as a manager today. And every manager will only succeed if the recruitment policy of the club is very good.
At 15, you were at Bolton. Yeah. You managed the club. You must have been down in the dumps when you thought they were going to go out of business.
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