At a club that everyone, every pundit has said is championship level. Kept them up, no investment in the summer, still has championship level players.
That doesn't really cut it nowadays tbh. There are plenty of clubs with similar resources, Burnley/Brighton/Fulham/Watford to name a few. They're all ahead of Newcastle in the league, and they also had tough starts. Finishing 10th is nothing to write on a postcard either. Allardyce finished 8th last year, and was swiftly sacked.
For the record, the last time we won the FA Cup or any trophy of note is actually with the man you are so obsessed with, the man who as it goes has had more silverware than us since he left.
So he should, given the clubs he was with, and the players he had. Ronaldo, Benzema, Modric, Torres, Ramos, Terry, etc etc. When a world class coach has the world's best players to work with week in week out, he's expected to reel off the big trophies on an annual basis. They don't get repeatedly sacked, then get relegated at Newcastle.
He was a tv pundit by the time we won the League Cup at Wembley.
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