Saturday 23 July 2016 13:48, UK
Sam Allardyce cut his managerial teeth at Limerick FC, a club where he is fondly remembered for his achievements 25 years on.
Father Joe Young, who had taken over as chairman just months earlier, gave the big centre half his first leg up on the ladder to try out "all the big ideas he had formed in his time in America".
And his astonishing impact on the team in just one season left assistant manager Billy Kinnane in no doubt the new England manager was heading 'right for the top'.
Big Sam stayed with Kinnane during his time at the club and the landlord still misses the days when the £170-a-week gaffer had at least one of his infamous flip charts in every room in the house.
Click on the video link to see how Allardyce restored pride to a club which, just months earlier, had been relegated to the second tier of Irish football for the first time.
