If memory serves me right, Allardyce took Blackpool to the play-offs when he was about that age, and then got sacked by the absolute abortion of a human being known as Owen Oyston while he was banged up. A few years after that, he was pretty successful at Bolton, so, I think he may have got under Silva's skin a bit here !
It's funny how certain managers are always ridiculed, Roy Hodgson (probably slated to death at some point on here, and not just when he was with the RS) unbeaten in seven now.
This is what will happen.
We get silva in the summer
play fantastic attacking football with defenders remembering how to defend for his first season because of fat sam, finish 4th, give him 6 yr deal
The following season the players forget how to defend
we finish 11th
Martinez 2.0