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Matt Cooper: O’Gara’s finest hour in beating Leinster shows how important managers are
Despite what he says, Sam Allardyce is not among the world’s greatest football coaches – but our very own Ronan O’Gara is one of rugby’s best
Sam Allardyce, manager of Leeds United until this afternoon when his late attempt to rescue the club from relegation from the Premier League is almost certain to fail, recently attracted derision when he claimed he was as good a coach as Pep Guardiola, Jurgen Klopp or Mikel Arteta.
It was claimed on his behalf that he was merely trying to deflect attention and pressure away from a struggling team that he had been given four ...
