#5 He has had other ventures apart from playing football throughout his career.
Allardyce was from a family who was not well off. Pay from football back in his playing career was nowhere close to what it is now and Sam Allardyce had to diversify his income to sustain himself.
In his days as a player, Big Sam used to buy modest properties in Bolton and modernised them before selling it off. As told to The Daily Telegraph, Allardyce said: “We modernised terraced houses. Buy the place for £6,000. It didn’t have a damp-proof course and needed rewiring, so you’d do a rip-out job, revamp it and sell them for £10,000 to £12,000. I did a lot of the mortgages during the season and in the summer, I’d be in there with a sledgehammer, knocking down walls,”
Allardyce also has run several other ventures such as a motor spares firm, a social club, a pub, a piano bar and a fast-food restaurant.
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