Big Sam Welcomes Link To England Job

Last updated : 02 October 2005 By Matt Bottom
Bolton Wanderers boss Sam Allardyce is happy to see his name connected with the England job.

"If people consider me for it, yes, I would be very interested indeed," he told FourFourTwo magazine.

"I'd love to be interviewed, but I have to keep doing well to get in the frame.

"When Roy Hodgson started at Blackburn he was held up as an Englishman who'd learned all the better stuff abroad and should manage the national team.

"Eighteen months later he was sacked and never heard of again. It's a myth, anyway, that foreign managers are better.

"We've created this image that they do it much better than us but we're on a par - in some cases we do things better."