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Sat 12 Dec 2008Allardyce's Rovers make it tricky for Ricky
Sunderland 0 Blackburn Rovers 0:SAM ALLARDYCE admits to being a bit miffed that Sunderland did not even bother to speak to him about the vacancy created by Roy Keane's resignation but Blackburn Rovers' new manager exerted a small measure of revenge here.
Before kick-off that job was Ricky Sbragia's to lose and it still remains within the Sunderland caretaker manager's grasp, yet Allardyce's relegation-threatened team asked some awkward questions and could easily have departed victorious.
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