McCarthy: Allardyce Gets the Best Out of People - Ipswich Town News
Town boss Mick McCarthy is delighted to see his friends and contemporaries Sam Allardyce and Steve Bruce in the running for the England manager's job vacated by Roy Hodgson, who resigned following the embarrassing Euro 2016 exit at the hands of Iceland.
Sunderland boss Allardyce, 61, is the only candidate to have spoken to the FA’s three-man selection panel - Martin Glenn, David Gill and Dan Ashworth - while Bruce, 55, has been linked but with Hull City yet to be asked for permission to talk to their manager.
"I’m delighted for them,” former Republic of Ireland boss McCarthy said. "Somebody has just got the prime minister’s job who just gets the job done. As she keeps saying, she just gets on with it and gets it done.
"That’s a bit like Sam and Steve and a few more of us that are much maligned I think at times in these supposed modern and different days, the way people speak differently about it.
"Sam’s just been excellent, I think. I don’t know how many things he’s won. Promotions, stays in the league. He gets the best out of people.
"Somebody wants to write a CV for him. What’s his CV? He gets players for not a lot, he gets the best out of them and generally they get promoted, stay up or upset the apple cart with everybody else. He just gets the best out of people. Surely that’s got to be the remit of any manager.”
He added: "They’ve tried numerous other options, haven’t they and gone away from [them]. Sometimes Sam has been tagged with the long ball and how he plays. But for me it’s about winning games.
"I’d imagine that the better players Sam’s got the better football he’ll play. And if he can get the best out of them, why not? The same applies to Brucey as well.”
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