Sam Allardyce sacked as Everton manager after six months in charge

Sam Allardyce has been sacked as Everton manager after just six months in charge at Goodison Park. There had been growing discontent among Toffees supporters at the negative style of play under Allardyce and he has been removed from his post with a year left on his contract.

Having replaced Ronald Koeman in November with the club struggling in the bottom half of the table under caretaker manager David Unsworth, the 63-year-old steered them to an eighth place finish.

The former England boss endured a fractious relationship with the club’s hierarchy in recent weeks and was fuming after a re-structure of the boardroom staff.

There were sweeping changes without consulting Allardyce’s and the manager had said he was ‘disgusted’ at the failure to consult him.

‘I’m shocked, disappointed and disgusted that the football club didn’t have the decency to tell me, my Director of Football and my staff about the changes,’ he had said.

‘They must have been in the pipeline for a considerable time but no-one thought to tell me and my staff. I’m pretty disgusted.