SAM Allardyce is desperate to find out why he was axed as Blackburn Rovers manager and admits he can’t understand the appointment of Steve Kean as his temporary replacement.

A week after being dismissed as Rovers boss, Allardyce admitted he was still in the dark about the reasons for the decision after a relatively successful two-year Ewood Park regime.

The former Rovers boss also questioned Venky’s decision to sack his assistant manager Neil McDonald and instead hand the caretaker reins to his first team coach Steve Kean.

He said: “I really can’t get it out of my mind, to be honest with you.

"Every day that’s gone by at some stage my wife Lynn has caught me staring into the wilderness, obviously wondering about the situation.

“I really can’t put my finger on it, and that’s one of the problems because having never really met the new owners and having had little dialogue, somebody somewhere has obviously said something derogatory to get me out of this job.

“That’s the one thing I want to find out. I want to find out why.

"If I can, I will. If I can’t, I have to move on with my life.

“Somebody somewhere down the line has said something either prior to the takeover or just after it happened for them to ring up and say we no longer want your services or Neil McDonald’s.

“That was a stranger one for me because if there was anybody capable of looking after the reins when I left, with all due respect to Steve, it would be Neil McDonald.

“He had a close working relationship with the players, he was assistant manager and had managed before, so it should have been him to look after the football club until such time that they appointed a new manager.

"But that wasn’t to be either.”