Brown and Allardyce are early names

30 December 2010 09:46
Despite a period with no manager being an unsettling one for any club there is no doubt the speculation certainly keeps it in the headlines. Part of that is the speculation as to who might and who might not take over. The first early names linked with the Burnley job, vacated yesterday by Brian Laws, are Phil Brown, who lost his job at Hull close to the end of last season, and Sam Allardyce who earlier this month became a victim of the Indian poultry company Venky's and their football expert Mrs Anuradha Desai.Those two, not long ago, would have come as a pair. For some time Brown was assistant to Allardyce at Bolton but left in 2005 to become manager of Derby County. That proved to be a massive failure but he was promoted at Hull when Phil Parkinson was sacked and, in his second management job, steered them into the Premier League.It started well, for the first few months, but then became a difficult fight for survival. It was one they eventually lost last season, finishing below Burnley on goal difference. By then Brown had been replaced by Iain Dowie who was himself being invited to take the Burnley hot seat by fans during Tuesday's defeat to Scunthorpe.Allardyce is vastly experienced as a manger with Blackpool, Notts County, Bolton, Newcastle and more recently Blackburn but such an appointment would certainly be a change of direction for the Clarets. Sam, if appointed, would, at56, become our oldest managerial appointment since Tommy Cavanagh accepted the post in 1985.There are sure to be other names thrown in over the next few days but I suspect, given that the transfer window opens in two days time, that we won't have to wait too long to learn who will be the successor to Brian Laws.

Source: FOOTYMAD