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Sam Allardyce has taken up his new mission at Sunderland with a remit to preserve the club’s Barclays Premier League status after a dreadful start to the season

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Sam Allardyce has taken up his new mission at Sunderland with a remit to preserve the club’s Barclays Premier League status after a dreadful start to the season

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Sunderland have turned to Sam Allardyce as they seek to salvage their Premier League season and avoid the drop.

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Manchester City ease into their first League Cup final in 38 years with a record 9-0 aggregate win against West Ham United.

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Someone should tell West Ham that they are in a relegation battle. This defeat plunged them back into the bottom three and although they could point to comical misses from Carlton Cole and Andy Carroll, they will surely go down if they continue to be as staggeringly negligent as they were in the first half of this match. After the relief of last Saturday’s victory over Cardiff City, the pressure is back on Sam Allardyce. Newcastle…

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Tony Carr blamed defensive lapses after the U18s lost in the league for the first time in ten matches

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• Hammers win gives Sam Allardyce much-needed lift • Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side sink into bottom three The wheel of fortune turns, making nonsense of the rush to judgment that sees so many managers sacked with indecent haste in an era when they are lucky to last two years. A week ago Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was Cardiff’s messiah and Sam Allardyce a prat after the novice Norwegian’s first game in charge…

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Sam Allardyce and his team, beaten in five of their previous six matches, took the lead just before half-time through Carlton Cole, then gutsily withstood Cardiff’s second half pressure, even after James Tomkins had been sent off. By way of reward the 10 men scored a second, through Mark Noble, in added time The result leaves Cardiff deeper in trouble, with just one win in their last 11 league matches. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had his new signing, Magnus Eikrem…

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Live text commentary from the Dev Squad’s U21 Premier League match against West Bromwich Albion

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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer makes his home bow as the Cardiff manager and will be looking to build on last week’s FA Cup victory at Newcastle against struggling West Ham. Sam Allardyce’s side arrive in Wales on the back of maulings against Nottingham Forest and Manchester City and without a league win since November. This is a crucial relegation six-pointer for the visitors and their manager. Max Goldbart Kick-off Saturday 3pm Venue Cardiff City Stadium Last season n/a Referee L…

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• You come out fighting or sink and die, says Allardyce • Carroll likely to be on the bench for Cardiff game Sam Allardyce has insisted in an email to West Ham fans he will “come out fighting” following his team’s dismal 6-0 defeat at Manchester City , a result that has persuaded the club to drastically reduce under-18 ticket prices for the semi-final, second leg on Tuesday week. West Ham, who have conceded 11 goals in their past two …

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West Ham boss Sam Allardyce admits he faces being sacked as “you can’t keep losing football matches as a manager”.

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West Ham’s relegation worries deepened as they sunk to a deserved defeat at fellow strugglers Fulham after their captain, Kevin Nolan, was sent off in the first half for kicking out at Fernando Amorebieta. Sam Allardyce’s side had taken an early lead thanks to Mohamed Diamé but Steve Sidwell equalised for the hosts before Nolan’s inexcusable folly left the already weakened visitors at a numerical disadvantage. Fulham, who were superior even before the red card, dominated the rest of the game and secured victory with a goal from Dimitar Berbatov…

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• Striker claims ‘quenelle’ was tribute to French comedian • Manager Keith Downing refuses to condemn action West Bromwich Albion’s caretaker manager Keith Downing refused to condemn Nicolas Anelka after the striker apparently made a far-right salute after scoring the first of his two goals in his side’s 3-3 draw with West Ham. Anelka has confirmed to Downing that he did perform what is known as a quenelle, or “reverse Nazi salute”, after…

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Come the end of this utterly absorbing contest, any doubts over West Ham’s capacity to score goals had disappeared, yet what remains real enough is the sense that this is a club in serious danger of being relegated. Six goals were scored, three by the hosts, and having lost the lead twice West Ham remain in the Premier League’s bottom three. It is now six games without a victory for Sam Allardyce’s men and for all the rare entertainment that was on show in this corner of east …

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• Striker has leadership qualities, says his manager • Moyes praises Rooney after win over West Ham Wayne Rooney is Manchester United’s on-field force and is becoming a leader who now calls the shots in the dressing room, according to David Moyes. The manager offered the insight after another display of total football from the England forward, who drove United to this smoothly impressive victory over struggling West Ham. With Robin van Persie out for another three weeks due to a thigh injury, there had…

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• Part 1: Arsenal to Manchester City Manchester United – Shaun O’Donnell – Observer reader 6/10 This was always going to be a transition season regardless of us being champions. Moyes knew the lack of quality in midfield needed addressing but left it until the last day of the transfer window and bought a player who he played further up the pitch. That our best midfielder has been a 40-year-old winger speaks volumes. Moyes seems to have handled Rooney well and he has carried …

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Manchester United’s crisis of confidence appears to be over. It could simply be down to the good fortune of meeting four teams from the bottom half of the table in the league run up to the end of the year, but after the consecutive home defeats to Everton and Newcastle, David Moyes has seen his side put together four straight wins in different competitions with only one goal conceded. As that goal came less than 10 minutes from the end of this all too…

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Manchester United have not lost three consecutive home league games since 1979 and after 1-0 defeats to Everton and Newcastle United, they would be mortified with similar against West Ham. Sam Allardyce’s side beat Tottenham Hotspur to reach the Capital One Cup semi-finals. That win came at White Harte Lane from a losing position and with Old Trafford less of a fortress now, the visitors will fancy their chances of leaving with something. Jamie Jackson…

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A tactical look forward to Saturday’s Barclays Premier League trip to Old Trafford

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Sam Allardyce hopes West Ham United’s League Cup quarter-final win at Tottenham can inspire them to a good league run.

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Tottenham’s fortunes are handed another blow after Modibo Maiga scores late to take West Ham United into the League Cup semis.

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Big Sam faces the media ahead of Wednesday night’s Capital One Cup quarter-final

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• Manager admits he is not enjoying life at present • Next two games could reveal light at end of tunnel Gus Poyet has acknowledged he is enduring the toughest challenge of his football career at Sunderland but is determined to prove equal to it. The Uruguayan’s side travel to West Ham United on Saturday five points adrift at the bottom of the Premier League table. “I’ve never experienced anything like this,” said Poyet, who criticised …

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West Ham United manager Sam Allardyce says his team are ready to redeem themselves after losing in the Premier League against Crystal Palace

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• Manager stresses impact of players other than Luis Suárez • ‘I love seeing gifted players work hard in a system’ Liverpool, more than most, are aware that the men who top the bill have a tendency to overshadow the supporting cast. The class of 2009, their finest side in the Premier League era, were unfairly dismissed in some quarters as a “two-man team”, with the focus on Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres so pronounced that players of the calibre …

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