Sunderland manager Sam Allardyce will be appointed England manager within the next 24 hours, sources tell Press Association Sport.
The 61-year-old Sunderland boss arrived at Victoria Park for his club's first preseason friendly against Hartlepool shortly after 6 p.m. local time on Wednesday evening as the news emerged that he is likely to be announced as Roy Hodson's successor following a Football Association Board meeting on Thursday.
It is a dream appointment for the former Bolton, Newcastle and West Ham manager, who was beaten to the post by Steve McClaren 10 years ago.
News of Allardyce's imminent departure from Wearside came just hours after FA chief executive Martin Glenn revealed that the governing body was close to making a decision, but insisted it would not be rushed.
The Sunderland manager has been the bookmakers' favourite ever since it emerged that he had held talks with the three-man panel -- Glenn, vice chairman David Gill and technical director Dan Ashworth -- charged with the task of finding the new man.
Discussions have also been held Hull manager Steve Bruce, while Bournemouth's Eddie Howe and United States head coach Jurgen Klinsmann are also understood to have figured prominently on the FA's shortlist.
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