Sunderland's specialist fitness coach Nick Allamby has left Wearside to take up a new role at Championship side Middlesbrough. Allamby was part of the backroom team brought to the Academy of Light by former manager Phil Parkinson in 2019, and he was the final member of Parkinson's staff still at the club.
He was hired as Sunderland's physical performance coach in November 2019, and his remit included working with the medical team, the coaching team, and the sports science department, to get the most out of the players on matchday. Allamby had previously worked with Parkinson at Bolton Wanderers and Bradford City.
On matchdays part of Allamby's job was to conduct the warm-up with the players and when Parkinson was sacked in November 2020, that continued under his successor Lee Johnson. Allamby was one of a number of players and staff who contracted Covid at the beginning of January before returning to work later in the month.
