TheFA.Com will be asking the same seven key questions to Premiership managers this season giving them a unique chance to speak about the game - from what rule change they would like to see in football to their favourite motto and dream signing.  The first to be questioned is Bolton's Sam Allardyce, who speaks to Joe Bernstein.

As a player, Sam helped Bolton win promotion to the old First Division in 1978 and went onto perform for Sunderland, Millwall, Coventry, Huddersfield and Preston.

As a manager, he started with Blackpool, won promotion with Notts County and then signed a 10-year contract to be manager at The Reebok.

So far, he has performed a miracle - helping Wanderers into the Premiership through the play-offs and defying the critics to keep them up last season.

These are his views on the game...

TheFA.com: What are the most and least enjoyable parts of your job?

Allardyce: Most enjoyable - working with the players Monday to Friday. I like getting onto the training ground as much as possible, having the usual banter and seeing the lads enjoying training and trying to improve themselves on a day-to-day basis. If you win on the weekend, the great joy and delight carries over to the whole of the following week which gives you a great impetus to carry on working hard but enjoying it also.

Least enjoyable - the games on a Saturday! As a manager you worry the whole day from the time you wake up to the moment the final whistle goes. You worry about the performance of your team and how it's going to go. The ups and downs while you are watching the games means that as a manager you can't enjoy any part of it. The only enjoyment of it is at the end if you can come off the pitch knowing your team has functioned well and got a result.

TheFA.com: What is the major difference since you were a player?

Allardyce: The major difference has been the breakaway of the Premiership. Having played in all four divisions myself, I would personally like it to still be one body. But to be fair to the Premiership as a business, it has created one huge market for itself so you can't argue with that. The Premiership is a worldwide phenomenon now and that is a major change from when I played.

Although there have been financial problems lower down, they are because of the collapse of other people's companies like ITV Digital, not because attendances are down and people aren't watching Nationwide League football.

It isn't all doom and gloom but what football needs now is breathing space because of the money that hasn't come in from ITV Digital and the Internet. When player contracts end, perhaps clubs should be allowed to renegotiate contracts across the whole squad to the level they can afford as they aren't getting the income they were originally entitled to.

TheFA.com: Name one football rule you would like to change?

Allardyce: I would love to get rid of the Technical area, it is an absolute pain in the backside for a coach or manager. I would like to move around wherever I feel like moving around without anybody pulling and tugging me and telling me I can't do this, I can't do that. Somebody dreamed it up along the line and I find it extremely restrictive in what is a very emotional game.

TheFA.com: Which other Premiership manager do you most admire?

Allardyce: Sir Alex. He took a club that hadn't won a championship for 26 years and worked on it from top to bottom. Not only did he create a top team on the field but a massive, massive business along the way as well. The success of the team has helped Manchester United become the most profitable sporting business in the world today.

TheFA.com: Which Premiership player would you sign if money was no object?

Allardyce: At the moment, Thierry Henry. He is not only a great goalscorer but a great player all-round.

TheFA.com: How do the players address you?

Allardyce: Gaffer

TheFA.com: What is your motto?

Allardyce: "Clean sheet"

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