Sam Allardyce - Sacked as England manager amid corruption investigation

cheesyboy said:
I think he'll be ok. He said and reiterated that he'd have to OK any deal with the 'powers that be', the 3rd party stuff was somewhat conversational, and the 'woy' stuff was embarrassing but not terminal.
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Somewhat controversial? The FA's highest profile employee is advising people about how to get around 3rd party ownership, advising them to own the agent so they keep taking a cut of the player's contract and future sales beyond any initial deal.

As I saw somebody else say, it's the equivalent to Philip Hammond advising people how to get around HMRC tax laws.
 
McBain said:
Just watched the videos, absolute joke he's put himself in that position to begin with but to say the things he said. I'd be very surprised if he isn't gone, how can the FA possibly spin that one?

You just know he has done all sorts of dodgy **** behind the scenes as well.
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See the link to the panorama sting a few years back. He's no better than Redknapp.

As for how the FA can spin this - as I said in my last post. The England manager is openly advising people how to get around the FA's rules on 3rd party ownership.
 
They didn't appoint Redknapp last time around for the very reason Allardyce is going to be sacked and I can imagine the likes of Pardew and possible even Bruce are too risky for the same reasons. It'll be a forgeign manager or Southgate/Howe.
 
HangTime said:
I was actually surprised they were naive enough to give it to him given his reputation along with Redknapp. The thing was, the rumours weren't even just shady internet forum rumours, didn't Panorama(?) do a documentary on it a few years ago with him and Gartside coming out pretty badly?
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Yea. It was alleged that he, via his son that was an agent, was taking bungs to sign players.
 
Jano said:
...any sensible person would have got out of there as soon as the discussions turned into anything resembling a grey area.
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I'd guess the reason why he didn't was because this sort of meeting and discussion wasn't new to him. As has been mentioned already, he was caught up in a Panorama sting a few years back where it was alleged that he was taking payments to sign players for Bolton.
 
A few reports coming out that he's going to quit tonight. Possible that the FA have told him to jump before they push him.
 
Terrible appointment to begin with but to watch him go like this made it worth it. If Allardyce was the FA's first choice I'm terrified who we might end up with next.
 
Jokester said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37524416
Oops, starting to unravel now.
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Any reason why we're meant to believe him now? I read another report about this earlier in which he also claims Tommy Wright took the £5k off the reporters and then handed it over to him. Yeah right. His livelihood is on the line - he's got to back track and cover his arse or no other managers will deal with him again. They probably won't anyway.

It's very possible that he was just bragging and making things up but I'm not going to take his word for it now. I read that he was involved in match fixing in Italy 10 years ago - he doesn't seem the most trustworthy guy around.
 
drunkenmaster said:
Baz, people talk themselves up to appear more powerful, and he was doing this to a company who was potentially offering him money to use his own influence. You realise he could effectively just be conning this far east company for payments with zero intention of doing anything dodgy
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BaZ87 said:
It's very possible that he was just bragging and making things up but I'm not going to take his word for it now. I read that he was involved in match fixing in Italy 10 years ago - he doesn't seem the most trustworthy guy around.
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