Sunderlands failure to win their chances left Sam Allardyce disappointed while West Ham’s Slaven Bilic refused to say European qualification is a targetSlaven Bilic was talking in a cramped anteroom to the West Ham media centre when Sam Allardyce,perhaps touring the Upton Park corridors for one final time, emerged from a side door. “See you next season, and hopefully,” the Sunderland manager said to his counterpart as they clasped hands. “You will, you will, and ” came the response.
With that,Allardyce was gone. It had been a trying afternoon, one that offered him none of the certainty evinced by Bilic about Sunderland’s survival prospects. Allardyce’s return to east London had been greeted with apathy by his former public and most of the fare that ensued inspired a similar feeling. Yet his side squandered enough chances to win a late point and the overriding sense afterwards was one of disquiet.
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Source: theguardian.com