Sam Allardyce: From Relegation Hero to England’s Fall Guy - What It Taught Me

If you don't know your strengths and your weaknesses, you're gonna struggle. And don't forget to use your strengths to the maximum and cover your weaknesses. The press followed us all over for ages, wrote headlines, completely fabricated headlines day after day after day after day. Whenever England play, there's a nagging in the back of the back of the head. And that's where you always think, what if?

Only 19 people in history have been asked to manage the England football team, and that man, Sam Allardyce, was one of them. And 67 days later, the job was no longer his. In today's episode, you'll hear what it really felt like being asked to lead his country, and he opens up about the depression. that followed his departure. Look, this show isn't about the headlines, it isn't about the speculation.

This is the truth from the man who was at the centre of a global story. And also in this intriguing episode we talk about the price of being in the public eye, the toll it takes on your family, and we learn how you keep going when it seems like the whole world has turned against you. What I found particularly intriguing was Sam taking us behind the curtain to understand how you deal with the pressure of a relegation scrap. Look, remember that Sam has taken charge of almost 550 Premier League games. He's faced the highs and the lows of football for more than two decades, and yeah, I know he's earned a reputation as a firefighter for clubs in crisis, yet he is so much more than that.

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