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- Updated: December 23, 2016
Sam Allardyce has been backed as the right man to turn around Crystal Palace’s season.
Former Stoke City defender Danny Higginbotham told Sky Sports News HQ that the ex-England boss has the track record to help the Eagles escape relegation.
Palace chairman Steve Parish is set to hold talks with Allardyce’s representatives following the sacking of Alan Pardew on Thursday.
And Higginbotham told Premier League Daily that the former Bolton Wanderers and Sunderland boss’s strength is making his teams difficult to beat.
“If you look at what he did at Sunderland, he tightened them up and …