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Allardyce glad Rovers sacked him
10:00am Saturday 20th October 2012 in Sport
By Chris Flanagan, Sports reporter
SAM Allardyce says he is glad that Venky’s decided to sack him as Blackburn Rovers boss – and has revealed that he turned down the chance to manage Burnley less than a month later.
Allardyce was surprisingly sacked by Rovers in December 2010, shortly after Venky’s took control of the club, but has since returned to management to take West Ham United into the Premier League.
And the 58-year-old admits that his Rovers exit was for the best, having seen the way the club has been run in the two years since then.
“When Blackburn sacked me I was very disappointed but in hindsight I’m glad they did it because it probably wouldn’t have worked out with the new owners anyway,” Allardyce said.
“What has gone on at Blackburn since tells you that lots of people have to be in place to run a successful club. Without the right structure, the team won’t function to their true capacity.
“The probability of a takeover was always there. In my first interview for the job, I was told that the club had been for sale for more than two years and would continue to be on the market.
“When you lose your job, there is a wave of sympathy from within the game.
“But while that is all well and good, it can’t repair the damage which is done to your career.”
And, weeks after his departure from Ewood Park, Allardyce says he was offered the opportunity to become the new boss of Rovers’ arch rivals Burnley, following the departure of Brian Laws.
He had been linked with the Turf Moor vacancy but, after initially appearing to avoid ruling himself out, he later made it clear that he was not interested in the job.
“What is not generally known is that I was offered the Burnley job,” Allardyce said.
“I was out of work at the time and it was good of them to approach me, however my response was a polite ‘thank you very much but I will sit tight and see what materialises’.
“It was the right decision.”
Comments(44)
BJS
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10:16am Sat 20 Oct 12
1952 rover wrote:He's in a different league to what we've had and probably what we're about(eventually!) to get mate!
Who even cares what this man thinks.
thresholdweller
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10:17am Sat 20 Oct 12
MatthewCA
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10:23am Sat 20 Oct 12
dallydally
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10:30am Sat 20 Oct 12
Stone Island:
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10:33am Sat 20 Oct 12
1952 rover wrote:Remind me again where we were when Sam got sacked? Oh yes, that's right, in the TOP TEN in The PL! FOOL!
Who even cares what this man thinks.
French Rover
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10:35am Sat 20 Oct 12
French Rover
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10:50am Sat 20 Oct 12
Stone Island: wrote:we were actually 13th I think and just 5 points away from relegation places, when BFS got sacked Stone..
1952 rover wrote:Remind me again where we were when Sam got sacked? Oh yes, that's right, in the TOP TEN in The PL! FOOL!
Who even cares what this man thinks.
We had just lost three out of five games including the one to Bolton and the horrible 7-1 mauling at Manure....
Generally we were sinking faster than a 'Stone' with some players in the team openly questioning his tactics in the press and the footballing world laughing at his single long-ball tactic and lack of any decent football! That was just about acceptable when it was getting us points and keeping us in the prem but at that time it was not even doing that.
The problem was not the sacking of BFS - the problem was with the clueless idiot that the new owners chose to replace him with.
Stone Island:
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11:04am Sat 20 Oct 12
French Rover wrote:Hello FR. If we were 13th when he got sacked, it must have been a very tight league. If my memory serves me correctly, i'm sure we could have gone 6th/7th if we'd have beat Bolton? As for the footballing world laughing at us, well, they certainly are now.
Stone Island: wrote:we were actually 13th I think and just 5 points away from relegation places, when BFS got sacked Stone..
1952 rover wrote:Remind me again where we were when Sam got sacked? Oh yes, that's right, in the TOP TEN in The PL! FOOL!
Who even cares what this man thinks.
We had just lost three out of five games including the one to Bolton and the horrible 7-1 mauling at Manure....
Generally we were sinking faster than a 'Stone' with some players in the team openly questioning his tactics in the press and the footballing world laughing at his single long-ball tactic and lack of any decent football! That was just about acceptable when it was getting us points and keeping us in the prem but at that time it was not even doing that.
The problem was not the sacking of BFS - the problem was with the clueless idiot that the new owners chose to replace him with.
Is Eckersley playing?
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11:13am Sat 20 Oct 12
philmoulden
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11:15am Sat 20 Oct 12
Rovers 1495
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11:33am Sat 20 Oct 12
BJS wrote:But it's just bla bla filling column inches
1952 rover wrote:He's in a different league to what we've had and probably what we're about(eventually!) to get mate!
Who even cares what this man thinks.
bluerob
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11:37am Sat 20 Oct 12
bluerob
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11:41am Sat 20 Oct 12
French Rover wrote:Dont know where you get your information but my understanding is that the players and staff really liked and respected Sam.
Stone Island: wrote:we were actually 13th I think and just 5 points away from relegation places, when BFS got sacked Stone..
1952 rover wrote:Remind me again where we were when Sam got sacked? Oh yes, that's right, in the TOP TEN in The PL! FOOL!
Who even cares what this man thinks.
We had just lost three out of five games including the one to Bolton and the horrible 7-1 mauling at Manure....
Generally we were sinking faster than a 'Stone' with some players in the team openly questioning his tactics in the press and the footballing world laughing at his single long-ball tactic and lack of any decent football! That was just about acceptable when it was getting us points and keeping us in the prem but at that time it was not even doing that.
The problem was not the sacking of BFS - the problem was with the clueless idiot that the new owners chose to replace him with.
As for falling like a stone, you really are having a laugh here aren't you.
alfa111
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11:42am Sat 20 Oct 12
Stone Island: wrote:spot on,LEAST WE FORGET.
1952 rover wrote:Remind me again where we were when Sam got sacked? Oh yes, that's right, in the TOP TEN in The PL! FOOL!
Who even cares what this man thinks.
alfa111
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11:49am Sat 20 Oct 12
Is Eckersley playing? wrote:100% Agree, seems we still have some on here with very short memories,hope they are happy with there new owners and they know who they are.
I cannot believe what I'm reading here. We would still be in the Prem if Sam was here. He looks like a football manager, talks like one and doesn't suffer fools. Look what he achieved straight away at West Ham. I wish he was back here, but with these clowns we have neither he, nor any manager worth his salt will come within 50 miles of Ewood.. Big Sam has presence and knew what he was doing. The Venkys are a disaster, and anyone who now trusts their judgement is hallucinating.
dangerous dave
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12:06pm Sat 20 Oct 12
OUT WITH SHAW AGNEW BLACK HENDRY SINGH VENKEYS
Captain Dreckley
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12:07pm Sat 20 Oct 12
alfa111
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12:16pm Sat 20 Oct 12
Captain Dreckley wrote:So glad your happy now that venkys were right.?That above all else started the collapse of BRFC FOOL.
It's easy to look back at the Big Sam era with rose tinted spectacles after what we have been subjected to by Kean and Black. But his long ball hit and hope mentality was awful to watch. Newcastle certainly didn't put up with it for long. OK we may still be in the premiership with his let's hope for a corner approach but we would also have been there with a manager who played fluent on the ground football that was a pleasure to watch and worth paying the money for. It is also interesting at the current time of next manager speculation there are not masses demanding him back. Lots of us wanting John Williams but not Sam. Venkys have been a total and complete disaster at Ewood but the nearest they did to doing anything right was sacking Mr hit and hope. I certainly don't miss you, Sam and Gold,Sullivan and Brady are welcome to you.
RoverInRotterdam
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12:24pm Sat 20 Oct 12
MatthewCA wrote:Another nominee for the Pune award for literacy i see ..... R.TI.D.
Sam and S.Kean are in the same loop, all talks bull and sam is lucky now because of hammers.........very rare in english football, A ruthless teaching with players , see one of the match by hammers 11 yellow cards in single game. Sam say that is called "Hammers" and he sleeps and walk like chickens.
RUinsane
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1:36pm Sat 20 Oct 12
bluerob wrote:Your right, Sam is well suited where he is, as Simon Jordan said. Its better he works for someone who sells d1ldos for a living than chickens.
Sam is a top bloke and manager , far too good for the clowns who now own us.
I suppose the choice was obvious to Sam.
Do I work for someone who sells d1ldos or do I work for Burnley.
I suppose the big hoof and the big plastic sausage are a match made in heaven. Its no wonder Karen Bardys always got a smile on her face. HOOF.
Bigbry
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2:14pm Sat 20 Oct 12
Iiii1111
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3:30pm Sat 20 Oct 12
s where it ends…….every other decision since has been catastrophic.
alfa111
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3:34pm Sat 20 Oct 12
Iiii1111 wrote:HaHaHa
the right decision made by the owners………that
��s where it ends…….every other decision since has been catastrophic.
jim 2012
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3:45pm Sat 20 Oct 12
so was i
not to happy with his replacement
but we live in hope of better times ahead for rovers
alfa111
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4:01pm Sat 20 Oct 12
merlinrabbit
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5:00pm Sat 20 Oct 12
Captain Dreckley wrote:What a moron you are. You want your cake.... Who do you think we are?
It's easy to look back at the Big Sam era with rose tinted spectacles after what we have been subjected to by Kean and Black. But his long ball hit and hope mentality was awful to watch. Newcastle certainly didn't put up with it for long. OK we may still be in the premiership with his let's hope for a corner approach but we would also have been there with a manager who played fluent on the ground football that was a pleasure to watch and worth paying the money for. It is also interesting at the current time of next manager speculation there are not masses demanding him back. Lots of us wanting John Williams but not Sam. Venkys have been a total and complete disaster at Ewood but the nearest they did to doing anything right was sacking Mr hit and hope. I certainly don't miss you, Sam and Gold,Sullivan and Brady are welcome to you.
ste.g
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5:01pm Sat 20 Oct 12
brilliant.nice one sam you have made my day
Iiii1111
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5:02pm Sat 20 Oct 12
alfa111 wrote:Remind me where’s your loyalties …..Allardyce or Rovers…idiot
Iiii1111 wrote:HaHaHa
the right decision made by the owners………that
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��s where it ends…….every other decision since has been catastrophic.
merlinrabbit
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5:06pm Sat 20 Oct 12
alfa111
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5:08pm Sat 20 Oct 12
Iiii1111 wrote:is that the loyalty you have shown by not going to matches IDIOT.
alfa111 wrote:Remind me where’s your loyalties …..Allardyce or Rovers…idiot
Iiii1111 wrote:HaHaHa
the right decision made by the owners………that
��
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��s where it ends…….every other decision since has been catastrophic.
Bigdave17
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5:43pm Sat 20 Oct 12
If we had won that Bolton game we would have gone up to 6th. Yes there were the odd games where he didn't play our strongest teams like man utd or arsenal away but can anyone say they were worse than the shambles of the spurs game last season where we didn't register a single shot in 90 minutes.
Also a lot of people are forgetting that the season before we were in the semi final of the league cup and winning on aggregate until Samba have away a penalty and was sent off. I genuinely believe we could have won that game if it was t for that incident.
Bit Sam made us a steady team in the premiership and all on a shoestring budget, he nearly got raul and Guti to sign for us and was getting the best out of dunny (10 goals that season)
There were a few players apparently unhappy with him, the most obvious outspoken one being Jason Roberts and lets face it he was all happy with venkys until he started seeing more of the bench again then as before he threw his toys out of the pram, he also recently got criticised by fergie on a matter this weekend.
All in all I liked big Sam. It wasn't attractive football but he turned Ewood into a fortress and he only lost 6 games (maybe less) at ewood in the 2 and a bit years he was in charge. If we had have given him some cash we certainly wouldn't be mid table in the championship right now
old man rover
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8:06pm Sat 20 Oct 12
RespectTheK-Dog
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8:33pm Sat 20 Oct 12
French Rover wrote:In 2014 you'll hear Steve Kean saying a similar thing.
this is like listening to the Odious one drone on again....it's nonsensical garbage and we do NOT want to hear what this gloating chump has to say....he will be sacked again soon anyway!
"I'm glad I left that dump", he'll say between sips of Chateau L'afite
Face it - Allardyce and Kean were far too good for you.
Alan Shearer/Colin Hendry are about your level
RespectTheK-Dog
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8:34pm Sat 20 Oct 12
MatthewCA wrote:Does anyone understand a word of this utter drivel?
Sam and S.Kean are in the same loop, all talks bull and sam is lucky now because of hammers.........very rare in english football, A ruthless teaching with players , see one of the match by hammers 11 yellow cards in single game. Sam say that is called "Hammers" and he sleeps and walk like chickens.
Try learning some English pal
smellthecoffee
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10:43pm Sat 20 Oct 12
merlinrabbit wrote:All the posts are from the same twisted individual...ignore them.
Some of the posts on here kind of make you think why we are in this situation. Chump fans calling a good manager a chump. And look who we got in his place. Who would want to work in front of such thick shortsighted people?
smellthecoffee
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10:45pm Sat 20 Oct 12
old man rover wrote:SPOT ON!!!
Holloway is currently odds-on favourite to get the Blackburn job but he is completely outclassed by Allardyce. Blackpool have just lost their third successsive game. Holloway has not really got beyond the romantic view of football; Allardyce's team won 4-1 today . Sam's track record is better than any of the fancied candidates for the Blackburn job and he is probably the most underrated manager in british football. Just to remind the critics here he could still be our manager but for the present crazy regime. And if he was we would still be in the Premier League.
ronnie clayton
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6:11am Sun 21 Oct 12
Road Runner Road Runner
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9:53am Sun 21 Oct 12
Holloway becoming the fave for the job, eh ?
So it goes..........
Arte et labore
RespectTheK-Dog
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2:04pm Sun 21 Oct 12
I bet he's also glad that Kean called him crook as well. Waddle along son
RespectTheK-Dog
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2:05pm Sun 21 Oct 12
I bet he's also glad that Kean called him crook as well. Waddle along son
Bazzer
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9:07pm Sun 21 Oct 12
smellthecoffee wrote:The top boys insult the so called "hoofball" teams. Wenger's "rugby" jibe, Fergie's "Jolly green giants". They insult them because they do not like playing them because they are effective. Nobody insults Rovers any more.
French Rover wrote: this is like listening to the Odious one drone on again....it's nonsensical garbage and we do NOT want to hear what this gloating chump has to say....he will be sacked again soon anyway!Talking sh!t again "FR"....West Ham are 7th in the PL, so by your logic that deserves the sack does it?? You are an absolute t0sser and your pathetic comments insult anyone with a grain of intelligence.
RespectTheK-Dog
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9:42pm Sun 21 Oct 12
Poor Steve Kean.
Good old Steve,
Honest STOIC Steve Kean
Valiant, always did his best.
Never given a proper chance
TIME TO PAY UP !!
blue_and_white
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10:20pm Sun 21 Oct 12
At least have the decency to admit you know nothing about football and should have kept your **** mouths shut up. Instead of posting juvenile, bitter rubbish on here about a guy who was nothing but a success.
1952 rover says...
10:10am Sat 20 Oct 12