For all the latest news from in and around Bolton, sign up for the free MyBolton newsletter He may no longer be at the club and now at the helm of West Bromwich Albion preparing to take on his boyhood club Wolves, but Bolton Wanderers is where Sam Allardyce's passion continues to be.
The 66-year-old represented the Whites both as a player and a manager. The defender played nearly 250 times for the Trotters in two spells with the club, winning the Second Division title in the 1977/78 season.
He took over the helm at the Reebok Stadium, as it was then known, for almost a decade from 1999 and oversaw a rise which included promotion via the play-offs from the First Division to the top flight and all the way to qualifying for the UEFA Cup.
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