David Coles and Sam Allardyce held top positions in what popular european sport?
David Coles (footballer) David Andrew Coles (born 15 June 1964) is a goalkeeping coach for Bristol City. He was the goalkeeping coach at Southampton F.C. from 1997 for 8 years which included their run to the F.A. cup final. He then worked as the goalkeeping coach for their South Coast rivals Portsmouth F.C. before moving to West Ham United in July 2010. He parted company with the club on 24 June 2011, following the arrival of Sam Allardyce before joining Al Jazira. On 21 November 2013 he rejoined Portsmouth as a goalkeeping coach. On 23 January 2014 The 49-year-old replaced Lee Kendall who was the current Bristol City goalkeeping coach at the time who took a position as England Women’s goalkeeping coach with the FA.
Football in England Association football is the national sport in England, where the first modern set of rules for the code were established in 1863, which were a major influence on the development of the modern Laws of the Game. With over 40,000 association football clubs, England has more clubs involved in the code than any other country as well as the world's first club (Sheffield F.C.), the world's oldest professional association football club (Notts County F.C), the oldest national governing body (the Football Association), the first national team, the oldest national knockout competition (the FA Cup) and the oldest national league (the English Football League). Today England's top domestic league, the Premier League, is one of the most popular and richest sports leagues in the world, with six of the ten richest football clubs in the world.