Sam Allardyce maybe hasn’t moved as quickly as his team
Fair has to be fair when it comes to West Ham United manager Sam Allardyce – he has put together a team this season that is overachieving and playing some fine football in the process. The trip to Chelsea gave a glimpse of the ghost of Big Sam past, however, as he rested the exciting Alexandre Song and Diafra Sakho against a Chelsea team who can lack mobility defensively, instead returning to the Andy Carroll and Kevin Nolan axis. It didn’t work and it wasn’t pretty.