Quotes from Sam Allardyce

It's always a good time to play against a team when they come back from Europe, whether it's the Europa League or Champions League.

Football is a worldwide business consortium and to satisfy that best you need to find the best players.

I have to remind Arsene about his team, which used to win the league, that was the dirtiest team in the league. If you cast your mind back to when they were winning the league, they had more seedings-off and bookings than anyone else.

Any football club that is any good is down to the manager more than anything else.

A group of players go out and win a game in a style that gets the best out of them. That's the key to management.

The type of football I played at Everton, the fans said it wasn't good enough and I would say the same - I knew it wasn't good enough for Everton - but I knew I had to get them in the position where they were safe.