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But this is Milan Mandaric's Leicester we are talking about and so it was always a possibility that he might actually get rid, and that's exactly what he's done today, and on the back of a 4-1 win against Watford last Saturday.
"Given our respective visions for the club, it was decided that it would be in everybody's best interests if we parted company," owner Mandaric said this evening, with the official statement saying that these differences had led to a breakdown in the relationship.
It is somewhat difficult for a relationship to breakdown after just three league games, but Allen has the security of a three year contract to compensate him, and he can console himself that he lasted a hell of a lot longer at Leicester than Don Mackay did recently.
Still I wonder what Allen reckons to his comments last week when he tried to dismiss it. "People start rumours and try to invent stories but this is just more rubbish. These are innuendo and untruths, and are out of order."
A number of people have been linked with the job already. There's Neil Warnock, Paul Jewell, even the Sinister One Glenn Roeder and the unknown Brendan Rodgers from Chelsea. Thinking about it Mandaric is more than capable of hiring and firing them all this side of Christmas.