Sam Allardyce | Full Q&A at The Oxford Union 

Love listening to Sam but equally impressed by the young folks and their questions. Great interview

100% win rate with England. Impeccable record.

I see Big Sam get called a ‘dinosaur’ a lot on social media. But this man was years ahead of anyone else bringing in the sports scientists at Bolton. Even now can still do a fantastic job guaranteeing survival at most clubs in the bottom half. A very underrated manager who gets judged on his personality rather than his record.

They once asked Sir Alex Ferguson “how does it feel to be the best manager in the world?” He responded “I don’t know, you’d have to ask Sam Allardyce.”

Hopefully they had enough gravy at Oxford to entice Big Sam to come and speak.

Really great interview with Big Sam, a very good manager who deserves a lot more credit for his career.

This couldn’t have come at a better time. Most underrated manager in PL history.

Greatest England manager of all time

As a Sunderland supporter I have no ill feeling towards Sam for leaving us to take the England job - no English manger would turn that job down. However, I've also always said that if he had stayed with us then I'm absolutely sure we wouldn't dropped down the level we are currently at. He would have kept us strong, steady and hard to beat in the Premiership.

Top bloke as well as a top manager. Honorary Boltonian...Good luck to him.

real through and through

Allardyce was Notts County boss in late 90's (97-99); his and my Lincoln City team had some cracking games - Imps 3 -Magpies 5 and us winning 3-2 at Meadow Lane. His success lower down often forgotten

Like him or not he was a smashing manager

Hero.

One of the most under-rated managers of all time.

Most underrated manager in EPL history

Being at Tampa in the early 80s he prolly came into contact with Gatorade before it got big. It came from the University of Florida in Gainesville their school name is the Florida Gators.

Bolton Legend, would love him back one day!

So good

that's the oxford union safe from the drop this season but it suggests a lack of ambition

There is no way that guy is a Bolton fan lmao

Good guest

Big Sam has his faults like the rest of us but he was the best manager Bolton has ever had, worked miracles with small budgets and such a crime that he was forced out by a stingy board - after Sam left Bolton made the inevitable slide down the leagues and near extinction.

Best national team's manager with 100% winning ratio, Capello who ??

Most underrated manager out time

Ah " Big Sham " cut from the same cloth as "honest Harry " !!

Best of luck to Big Sam at WBA! One of the greats, unfairly maligned to the point of it being laughable.

27:12 Increases your Endolphins...

here after his baggies side beat the London blues 5-2

On 3 million pound a year and still agreed to take a bung. Pure greed not a nice trait to have.. A greedy person

Why?

If he never left Bolton they would still be in Premier League.

Give us a bung. I mean bun.

How fast can you drink a pint of wine?

great video. first

I like Allardyce, its a shame he was pushed out as England manager. It would have been good to see him have a proper chance at it. A manager should be sacked for footballing reasons imo and not a disingenuous beer fuelled sting by a bunch of phonies just to make a few headlines. There's worse things gone wrong in the world than that. Pathetic.

"...the attacking player can't enter the box until the defender has touched the ball." That's not the rule/law, Sam. Knocking a rule/law change (which has definitely helped the game as the rule/law it was pointless before) without even understanding it is poor form. Deserves credit for some things, but clearly isn't as open-minded as he'd want you to believe.

31:50. Exactly. It's exacerbated by the new breed of "football" fan, those who sit on their FIFA video games and have barely ever kicked a ball or even watched a game in their life now coming out of the woodwork following a team because it's fashionable. So many of these plebs have their own RU-vid channels and talk absolute nonsense about football, which then bleeds into the minds of their audiences and spreads this idiocy like wild fire. Just pick any football you tube channel/video; they talk stats more than football itself, which is the immediate give away that they know fuck all.

Will from inbetweeners hosting 😁

Should have asked him how much tax he didn't declare from taking a bung money.

Awkward much - 1st sports science question about how he convinced the board for funding - rants on about mental health

class is permanent; form is temporary..............................even as a short england boss - minus the bung!!

Is this the same Sam Allarydce who made his Millions by getting the sack?

Another hour would have been good.

Dodgier than a 9 bob note.

Can someone, anyone, please explain to me why 'big Sam' was given the honour of this Q and A?? I was astounded when I saw it on RU-vid. Astounded Apart from the opening introduction, I could not stomach watching this interview. But I'm sure one question he wasn't asked, was why his very brief career as the national Manager for England came to such a sudden end. A job that lasted all of one game. Yes, he has a great track record as a football manager, but he should never have been employed again after 'chasing' money which lead to his resignation as England manager. And by the way, he was never fit to hold that post in the 1st place. And the FA have a lot to answer in that regard. Doesn't say much for them. He is not a good role model for the young people sitting in that audience or anyone watching it on line. Like a lot of folk in modern society, he can never get enough money. Greed being celebrated in front our eyes, and dressed up as being some sort of upstanding decent person. Enjoy it Sam, but any honest people out there know what you are all about.

They let anyone in now. Please remember why he was sacked from the England job.

woodward out!!!

I was gutted when he came to my club, Everton. The fans couldn’t bare him and counted down the days till he went. He hasn’t been missed. The style he makes his teams adopt, is so boring and negative. How he still finds work is beyond me. Corrupt as they come as well.