Question: David Coles and Sam Allardyce held top positions in what popular european sport?
Context: Emilio Colombo (11 April 1920 – 24 June 2013) was an Italian politician and the Prime Minister of Italy from 1970 to 1972.  In addition to having held top positions in Italian governments, he was also the president of the European Parliament.  In 2003 he was appointed to be an Italian senator for life, a seat which he held until his death.  In the first five years as senator, he was an independent.  From 2008 until his death in June 2013, Colombo was a member of the Autonomies group, formed mainly by elects in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. David Andrew Coles (born 15 June 1964) is a goalkeeping coach for Bristol City.  He was the goalkeeping coach at Southampton F.C. from 1997 for 8 years which included their run to the F.A. cup final.  He then worked as the goalkeeping coach for their South Coast rivals Portsmouth F.C. before moving to West Ham United in July 2010.  He parted company with the club on 24 June 2011, following the arrival of Sam Allardyce before joining Al Jazira.  On 21 November 2013 he rejoined Portsmouth as a goalkeeping coach.  On 23 January 2014 The 49-year-old replaced Lee Kendall who was the current Bristol City goalkeeping coach at the time who took a position as England Women’s goalkeeping coach with the FA. During the 2007-08 season, Newcastle United participated in the Premier League.  Newcastle started the season reasonably well under the management of Sam Allardyce and looked to be in the hunt for European places by the end of October, but a poor November saw the team slide down the table as fans began doubting Allardyce's ability.  Despite a reasonable upturn in early December, the team fell further form wise and in the end Mike Ashley chose to terminate Allardyce's contract by mutual consent. BT Sport ESPN is a sports television channel provided by BT Consumer; a division of BT Group in the United Kingdom and Ireland, under licence from American sports broadcaster ESPN Inc. The channel was operated by ESPN from 24 November 2008 to 31 July 2013, when it was sold to BT and became part of its BT Sport package.  The channel focusses on coverage of American sports, in particular Major League Baseball and American College sports, but BT also uses it to show European sport when BT Sport 1, 2 & 3 are otherwise engaged.  Programming is available in standard definition and high definition formats. Weightlifting was introduced to Armenia in the late 1920s and became widely practiced after World War II.  Today, it is one of the country's most popular sports.  The first weightlifters from Soviet Armenia made successful appearances the international stage in the 1970s.  Vardan Militosyan won a silver at the 1976 Olympics, and later Yurik Vardanyan became an Olympic, World and European champion through the late 1970s and the early 1980s.  Oksen Mirzoyan and Yurik Sarkisyan rose to top positions in the 1980s.  After its independence from the Soviet Union, Armenia successfully held its weightlifting traditions and continues to be one of the strongest nations in Europe.  In 2008, the Armenia team placed first at the European Championship.  In the 2008 Summer Olympics Armenia won three bronze medals.  Tigran Gevorg Martirosyan is Armenia's only world champion with his successful appearance in 2010. John Francis O'Leary (June 23, 1926 – December 19, 1987) was an American government official and business executive.  He held top positions in the Federal Energy Administration and the U.S. Department of Energy before moving to the private sector, where he rose to chairman and chief executive officer of General Public Utilities Corp. Craig Samuel Allardyce (born 9 June 1975) is a retired footballer and a football agent.  He is the son of former player and current manager, Sam Allardyce.  He was the manager of non-League club Turton from 2007 to 2009. Samuel Allardyce ( ; born 19 October 1954), known as "Big Sam", is an English football manager and former professional player, who most recently managed Crystal Palace from December 2016 to May 2017. David John O'Connor (born January 18, 1962) is a retired equestrian who represented the United States in the sport of three-day eventing.  He competed in two Olympic Games, winning a team silver at the 1996 Summer Olympics and an individual gold and team bronze at the 2000 Summer Olympics.  At the 1999 Pan American Games, O'Connor took an individual silver and team gold and at the 2002 World Equestrian Games he assisted the US team to gold.  After his retirement from competition in 2004, he became involved in the administrative side of international eventing.  O'Connor has held top coaching roles for the US and Canadian national eventing teams, and was president of the United States Equestrian Federation from 2004 to 2012.  During his career, O'Connor and his horses were awarded many honors, including equestrian and horse of the year awards from several organizations.  In 2009, he was inducted to the United States Eventing Association's Hall of Fame, and two of his horses have been granted the same honor.  O'Connor is married to fellow international event rider Karen O'Connor, and the pair operate two equestrian training facilities in the eastern United States. International Speedway Corporation (ISC) is a corporation whose primary business is the ownership and management of NASCAR and IndyCar race tracks.  ISC was founded by NASCAR founder Bill France, Sr. in 1953 for the construction of Daytona International Speedway and in 1999 they merged with Penske Motorsports to become one of the largest motorsports companies in North America.  The company has played an important, though controversial, role in the modernization of the sport.  It has worked with NASCAR to create new tracks and update older ones in an effort to improve the racing and the experience for spectators (though because both companies have several members of the France family in top positions, ISC's competitors have filed multiple lawsuits on antitrust grounds) and has constructed popular new tracks in regions previously thought uninterested in NASCAR.
Answer: football