Struggles of young managers make it easy to see why Sam Allardyce and Roy Hodgson agreed to another farewell tour
Roy Hodgson has enjoyed a successful return to Crystal Palace (Picture: Getty Images)
Anyone wondering why Sam Allardyce is back in the Premier League could take one look at Chelsea?s performance at Arsenal and think; why not"
Seeing Frank Lampard trusted with the keys to a supposedly top-of-the-range team must have blown away any doubts Big Sam had that he could still do a job.
And so a season which began with Steven Gerrard, Lampard and Scott Parker on a touchline near you will end with Sam, Roy Hodgson and Neil Warnock back in management and Harry Redknapp sounding eager to join them.
Gerrard, Lampard, Eddie Howe, Parker and Graham Potter were the new wave of English managers. Boasting the laptops, casual knitwear and white-soled trainers the old guard could only dream of, they were homegrown coaching?s last bulwark against the superstar managers of Europe and their lock on the English game?s biggest jobs.
That went well. Gary O?Neil, Parker?s low-key successor at Bournemouth, and Newcastle?s Howe are flying the flag for the new breed but elsewhere Gerrard and Potter are back on the sofa, Parker has been sacked twice and Lampard is sailing very close to joining him.
In their absence the English face of management has taken on a more jowly, weather-beaten hue with Hodgson back at Crystal Palace and Allardyce asked to rescue Leeds.
Neil Warnock is not interested in a long-term job (Picture: Getty Images)
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