SUNDERLAND appointed David Moyes as manager yesterday, replacing Sam Allardyce who has taken charge of the England team.
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Allardyce came up against the English press for the first time since his appointment as the new Three Lions manager on Monday after being handed the reins last week.
“My coaching technique is to try and give the players the opportunity to win a football match wherever they are playing, be it home or away”.
Allardyce also he said he would not make a decision on Wayne Rooney’s captaincy until he met the players and staff.
“I think first and foremost it’s about regaining, perhaps, a bit of confidence they have lost after the Euros”, he said in an in-house interview with FATV.
Fr Joe Young, who brought him to Limerick, said: “I only wish I could afford to bring him back”.
“He is a man whose football pedigree speaks for itself and is someone I have long admired. So I can only do that with everybody who works for me and works around me”.
The former Bolton and West Ham boss has been charged with the task of helping the national team recovering from their last-16 Euros exit at the hands of Iceland. I’ve had speculation about Sunderland previous year, speculation about Bolton.
“I think I’m at the right age (61), with the right experience and hopefully I can pass my knowledge and experience onto the team and the staff working behind the team”.
“I consider myself to be much more than that but that’s the sort of label I was left with”.
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Sam Allardyce is determined to solve the psychological problems that have dogged the England team’s progress in recent years with a “pragmatic” style of management. “With the development of this site (St George’s Park), it’s much more forward thinking than it was in 2006”.
