These are the best Sam Allardyce England manager jokes after reports the FA are due to announce him as the next coach of the national side within 24 hours.
Pipping other prospective canditates such as Steve Bruce to the post, the experienced 61-year-old is set to leave Sunderland and replace Roy Hodgson after the squad’s disaster of a Euro 2016 campaign earlier this summer.
Here are the best of the Sam Allardyce England manager jokes as news spreads of his upcoming appointment:
Big Sam after hearing he's got the England job… https://t.co/CiNl3mfDxx
— Oddschanger (@Oddschanger) July 20, 2016
Arise, King Big Sam The First 👑. pic.twitter.com/9xd2JBFAAB
— Bleacher Report UK (@br_uk) July 20, 2016
Oh yeah "BIG SAM" is going to get us out of the championship GREAT DECISION pic.twitter.com/7RgYCf41EF
— Romell Henry (@RomellHenryTgf) July 20, 2016
Bit of a step down for Sam Allardyce isn't it? #SAFC
— Nick Mitchell (@HeyNickMitchell) July 20, 2016
Sam Allardyce is better than you.
— Andy Dawson (@profanityswan) July 20, 2016
That moment when Big Sam got the call… #EnglandManager pic.twitter.com/Vg8o9wbRIO
— boohooMAN (@boohooMAN) July 20, 2016
Big Sam was Sir Alex Ferguson's top pick for the job. Bodes well… pic.twitter.com/r0SPt7BMgy
— Paddy Power (@paddypower) July 20, 2016
If Sam Allardyce and Allah were cutting vegetables into manageable chunks the headline would be 'Sam, Allah dice'
— Chris (@Flatus74) July 20, 2016
Big Sam. Football Genius. #ENG pic.twitter.com/DfuyBv7DdQ
— Squawka Dave (@SquawkaDave) July 20, 2016
Sam Allardyce. Another example of how great things start in Limerick.
— ᑕOᑎOᖇ ᗰᑕᑎᗩᗰᗩᖇᗩ (@ConorMcNamaraIE) July 20, 2016
And, yay, it is written Big Sam will forge the England side in his own image. pic.twitter.com/huOwRSjejg
— Danny Baker (@prodnose) July 20, 2016
Glad it's Big Sam. The virtue-signalling football hipsters can go cry into their overwritten blogs about "registas" or whatever. #mixer
— Ben Machell (@ben_machell) July 20, 2016
I used to go out with a woman who looked like Sam Allardyce. She used to neck turkeys at a poultry farm. Awful woman. Keith
— Keith Mallender (@KeithMallender) July 20, 2016
Big Sam Allardyce's greatest ever moment… https://t.co/GK3oeUkS0V
— FurnyFootball (@FurnyFootball) July 20, 2016
I'm not a big fan of Big Sam, he's got a massive ego based on no success; I hate people like that.
— Alan Pardew (@APardewCPFC) July 20, 2016
"Sam Allardyce? Hang on, isn't he the guy who was 'in the chippie deciding what to have'?"
– And lo, Twitter teaches me about sport.— Dean Burnett (@garwboy) July 20, 2016
"In the press release, introduce me as 'King Big Sam'…no, 'Big King Sam'…no, 'Big King Big Sam'…" pic.twitter.com/uTSVG80VZq
— Brooks Peck (@BrooksDT) July 20, 2016
Big sam will be knocking back the pints of gravy tonight!!! #bigsam #bassettindisguise
— Mike Bassett (@mike__bassett) July 20, 2016
Not going to accept that Big Sam has gone until I see him wearing the three lions and sat beside his trusty printer. pic.twitter.com/BE48zg7g4g
— Andy Dawson (@profanityswan) July 20, 2016