He has never won major silverware at any of his five Premier League clubs or finished above sixth in the English top flight. They completed the second-lowest number of passes of all the Premier League teams after Allardyce's arrival, with only West Brom completing fewer. That was the third-highest in the Premier League, after Crystal Palace and West Bromwich Albion. That approach has often included a willingness to unnerve more fancied opponents with a number of managers accusing Allardyce's teams of employing rough-house tactics. He has never had any time for so-called definitions of 'modern football' that focus on anything other than the result and dismissed the "tippy, tappy" style of Barcelona with an expletive.

Source: dna July 22, 2016 16:07 UTC