You can't keep an old West Ham manager down

Old West Ham managers just keep on returning. Alan Pardew has just been appointed manager of West Brom while Big Sam Allardyce is said to be in line for the Everton job and another nice little earner. While Slaven Bilic was also said to have been approached for the West Brom job, but sensibly decided to have a rest. 

It's not as if West Ham have been a particularly successful club. Pards and Big Sam are competent gaffers, but it does rather illustrate the fact that Premier League clubs are not willing to take a chance on new talent. The only real gamble was Hull and then Watford's appointment of Marco Silva, and now he's much in demand, so it can't be that risky. At this rate Alan Curbishley, Glenn Roeder and Harry Redknapp may soon have new clubs as well.