Whatever. If it was all clean and above board he'd still be in a job. If it was just a smear he'd be standing his ground and fighting his case. He held his hands up and that's that.
If someone is paid millions to do a job, they should do their job and give it every priority. If there's "extras" that are approved by his employer that's fine. But he let greed get the better of him and got caught out. Tough.
What are you talking about. Again, almost all managers do TV work, all England managers I can think of have done extra work and again, Allardyce said in the video that he would only accept the job if the FA approved. I've stated that more than once already, if you read the article or watched the videos properly you'd know that. It negates your entire post. It was fine for Hodgson to do paid appearances be it on TV or at meet and greets, but we don't like Allardyce now so it's suddenly not okay.
The smear is that people like you, and in fact the majority, haven't actually watched the whole video(clearly), you don't understand what was said, you've presumed guilt and despite having things pointed out you still argue against them.
Everyone decided the video was conclusive evidence he was bent without understanding it and no one can understand why it was fine... they are left with little choice because as with you, the explanation would go no where. He's tainted already, everyone is calling it an embarrassment and it would require a few million people to own up and accept they misunderstood for him to come out without a damaged reputation which simply isn't going to happen.
people read headlines, not 2000 word articles, as the telegraph article was, with proof like him saying no to bungs right at the bottom. They read headlines, believe them and ignore the rest, that is the age we live in. When papers went with those headlines it was game over instantly with no way back.
I'm not equating peadophilia with corruption in football but it's the same principle, someone accused of being a peado always carries the accusation even if proven false lots of people will never ever trust that person again, similar things happen with rape allegations. It can be absolutely without a doubt proven someone wasn't where they were accused of being, absolutely impossible for them to be guilty yet many people will simply believe they are guilty anyway. Applying for a job, a google search on the name, some doubt thrown and job offer either not given or withdrawn despite absolute proof it didn't happen, that is the world we live in.
Also I presume you actually understand that there is only so much an England manager can do when, you know, it's not an international break. It's a fundamentally part time job, and again I'll point out that I've literally never seen anyone have a pop at Wenger, Pulis, Hughes or any other manager for going on TV at the weekend on a day they aren't training or playing despite that being a job with significantly more work to do. The amount someone is paid doesn't change what the job is. If you paid a part time shoe shine 5million a year, if his job is a part time shoe shine then he's got plenty of time free in his off hours to frankly do as he pleases.
He's greedy, probably, he's crooked, IMHO probably, but most people are greedy and the video brought zero new evidence of him being crooked compared to before he took the job when the actual allegations of him being crooked were ignored by everyone.
