Sam Allardyce says anyone can win trophies as Celtic manager

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Former England manager Sam Allardyce has insinuated that the Celtic job is easy and what Sean Dyche has done with Burnley is far harder than winning silverware in Scotland.

Allardyce, whose most recent league win was the Division Three title with Notts County in 1998, said that anyone can win titles with the Bhoys.

He told TalkSport: “We can all go to Celtic and win trophies. We can all go… it’ll soon be Rangers the way Steven Gerrard is going and win trophies again.

“Sean Dyche has taken Burnley from obscurity into Europe. Europe, over a consistent level of games is much harder to achieve than winning a piece of silverware where you play six or seven games and get to a cup final.”

TBR’s View – Allardyce’s view shows ignorance of the pressures of managing Celtic

As soon as Allardyce has gone to any job where there is a huge fanbase and a demanding public – Newcastle, England, Everton – he has failed.

The Celtic job brings exactly the kind of demands in terms of winning, flowing football and being in the glare of a huge amount of fans across the world that he struggles to deal with.

Are we really still at the stage where people in England see managing in Scotland as easy? It’s an ignorant view and it makes no account for just how relentless the standards are at Parkhead.