Leeds boss Allardyce: No resentment towards Newcastle

Leeds United boss Sam Allardyce has no lingering animosity towards Newcastle United.

The veteran coach always felt that he was sacked too early back in 2007 by the Magpies.

However, Mike Ashley is no longer the club's owner and Allardyce is only focused on trying to keep Leeds United in the Premier League.

Asked about the Magpies, he stated to reporters: It's a long time ago. 2007 is a long time ago. What was I disappointed? Yes. What did he do to my career? Massive knockback, but as always I recover and move on. So it was an opportunity that in the end I couldn't avoid a change of ownership that was unexpected. No criticism of Mike (Ashley).

He wanted to do with it what he wanted to do with it at that particular time. For me, it was a blow to my career at that particular time because I wanted to take Newcastle as far as I possibly could like it's doing now, that was the ambition of me and Freddie Shepherd at the time, but it wasn't to be."

He then went on to talk about taking on Eddie Howe's team: It's a different way of playing. Managing how they play and the players obviously looking at how they're playing and trying to remember when they go on the field what the strengths of Newcastle are to nullify them and what their weaknesses are to try and obviously get a goal to score against them. So you play completely differently to Manchester City."