Former Coventry City centre half Sam Allardyce has said that he still dreams of being the manager of the England team.
Allardyce, who played for City during the club's centenary season of 1983, told the People: “Without any dreams or goals I would need to pack in management.
“It was a pretty distant dream that I might one day be considered for the England manager’s job when I started out at Limerick, but 15 years later I went very close.
“You have to reset your goals and your dreams, and my dream, first and foremost, is to make West Ham as successful as I possibly can – not only by getting promoted, but by establishing them in the Premier League.
“But if by fulfilling that dream you are brought closer to another one, then obviously that’s what you consider. In fact, it’s what you do the job for.
“That’s not being disloyal to any football club, it’s about always having ambition and striving to be better.
“If you have achieved, the club has achieved.
“You try to leave a club in a better position than when you acquired it and I’ve always felt that’s the one thing I have done.
“Winning leagues and cups is deemed the ultimate success, but when you re-invent a football club and start putting processes in place for when you’ve left, then the basis of a sustainable, successful football club is there for somebody else to take on."