GED BARNES takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the recent England managerial mayhem...

WHEN Sam Allardyce began his lengthy reign as English football’s new patriarch, he must have realised that his sizeable head was well and truly above the parapet.Still, the speed in which Big Sam’s International career unravelled so quickly, at the hands of the Daily Telegraph, came as quite a shock.The England job is a poisoned chalice, of this there can be no doubt, but Allardyce would have expected to at least make it to the World Cup, where his no-nonsense style would have surely set...