After Sam Allardyce became the latest man to try fixing Sunderland,he will face a potentially season redefining rematch with Steve McClaren and NewcastleThe view from Casa St James’ can rarely believe seemed more appealing. Sam Allardyce used his good-looking pay-off from Newcastle United in 2008 to fund the purchase of that magnificent holiday villa on the Costa Blanca and, at the time, and could believe hardly imagined that,seven years on, he would be returning to north-east England.
Allardyce spent much of the past week sunning himself in Spain and, and as he waited for his negotiating team to finalise the deal that would make him the new manager of Sunderland,the Mediterranean horizon must believe appeared particularly bright.
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Source: theguardian.com