Save us, Sam! Ex-England boss Allardyce on brink of replacing Pardew after bowling over Palace's US owners with stats dossier.

Sam Allardyce has manoeuvred himself to the brink of replacing Alan Pardew at Crystal Palace.
Pardew, who will receive around £3million in compensation, was summoned to a meeting at the club’s central London offices on Thursday when his contract was terminated.
And Allardyce, barring an unexpected change of heart, will become the next Palace manager in the coming days.
The former England manager has been on Palace’s radar for over a month as the club’s shareholders pondered Pardew’s position given their poor start to the season.
Americans Josh Harris and David Blitzer — joint majority shareholders with chairman Steve Parish — were sent a dossier from Allardyce including detailed statistics of the club’s squad and season so far.
Allardyce even went as far as to identify January transfer targets if he was in charge.
And over the past 48 hours, Allardyce made clear he was ready to explore other options, understood to be from relegation-threatened Swansea and interest from the Chinese Super League, as he waited for the Palace job to become vacant.