West Ham manager Sam Allardyce has said that he feels the club have made "massive progress" since he took the job the summer before last, but that there is still work to do. Speaking to UAE-based newspaper Sport3600, the gaffer revealed that the board had given him a two-year window in which to gain promotion from the Championship and that doing it in the first year was, for him, "a massive achievement," and that the progress has been continued this season in the Premier League as "we are 11th with twelve games to go and we need a maximum of ten points from our remaining twelve games to make sure we are safe." This, for Big Sam, sums up the progress we have made, as the "progress has been.."-you guessed it- "massive", in what he sees as a comparatively short space of time. In a sense, Sam's right. We have achieved a lot this year; we're doing better than the other two promoted teams and as he says, we only need ten points from our last twelve games to be sure of staying up. I would have taken 17th place if you'd offered it to me before the season so to be 11th with twelve games to go suits me!
By Alex Shilling
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