Blackburn test the strength of Big Sam’s heart

BLACKBURN manager Sam Allardyce says he’ll walk away from football if his heart problems are putting his life at risk, and his players tested him to the full before seeing off Fulham yesterday.

Allardyce spent several weeks away from the club after undergoing an angioplasty to widen one of his coronary arteries but he claims he’s a mellower animal now.

However he must have been sweating until his skipper Ryan Nelson put the visitors to Ewood Park out of their misery in the 54th minute.