Allardyce set to have heart surgery
Reuters - Saturday 21 November 2009, 19:09
LONDON - Blackburn Rovers manager Sam
Allardyce will miss his side's next three Premier League
matches because he needs heart surgery, the club said on
Saturday.
The Rovers website said Allardyce, 55,
would undergo an angioplasty next week to correct a narrowing to
a branch of his coronary arteries after recently complaining of
chest discomfort.
Allardyce will miss Sunday's game against his former club
Bolton Wanderers as well as matches against Fulham (away) and
Stoke City (home).
Assistant manager Neil McDonald will take
charge of the first team in his absence.
"His well being is of prime consideration," said Rovers'
chairman John Williams.
"We all appreciate that Premier League
football is a stressful business and prevention is always better
than cure."