Sam Allardyce has been pleasantly surprised by the discipline he has seen from his Leeds United players so far. The head coach is coming to the end of his first week at Thorp Arch after being officially appointed on Wednesday morning and he is still getting to grips with his squad and the individuals within it.
He will have found it hard not to arrive in West Yorkshire without preconceived ideas of players and the club having seen them drastically underperform in the Premier League over the last few weeks. Displays have simply not been up to scratch under previous regimes and as a result, United have found themselves slipping towards the Championship without any real traction.
Allardyce, then, may have expected to walk into a divided dressing room with discipline and attitude issues but that simply has not been the case. Instead the former England boss has been greeted by a team that arrive promptly and seem willing to learn and work in order to avoid the dreaded drop over the remaining four games of the Premier League season.
