So that's Allardyce, Cellino, Hasselbaink and Wright (assist. manager at Barnsleh) so far. That Wright has just been suspended as I type this anarl. I wouldn't be surprised if NP is involved too. I'm gonna put a few quid on Redknapp too.
and the award for the least surprising target goes to .................................................. Cellino. Never saw that one coming !
It's not as if this is the first scandal.. let's look back.. Capello & writing his own player ratings, Sven & his love of yachts, Hoddle's faith healing, even Clough "liked a bung", Don Revie had to bolt off to the middle east.. Completely overblown , if you look at the individual discrepencies there wasn't much wrong with Sam, as if all you whiter than white folks wouldn't accept £400k for giving a couple of after-dinner speeches..
For me it's not the £400k more the explaining how to get round his employers own rules. If most people did this in a new job they would be shown the door too
Hey, I realise your job is "massaging" the truth and any inconvenient facts, but, I never mentioned the previous managers. I simply stated it shows what ****s the press are. They are. ****s. Even the broadsheets.
Do you really think Sam is the only one to know this? and please don't tell me that the FA didn't already know it and did **** all about it. **** has been exposed and Sam has been the fall guy, nobody at the FA will be looked at for any of this yet most of them probably knew about it. When it comes to the £400k for after dinner speaking, Sam actually told them he would have to clear it with the FA, really dubious dealings that.
Lest we forget.... I read this elsewhere - It’s 2006 and corruption is the word on everyone’s lips. More precisely, it’s the word on the lips of Luton manager Mike Newell and QPR manager Ian Holloway. Holloway and Newell alleged that managers all over the Premier League were taking backhanders for transfers and other dealings. The FA promptly started an inquiry and the BBC began investigating. So which clubs were the naughty little boys of the Premier League? According to the BBC, Bolton Wanderers, Portsmouth, Chelsea, Liverpool and Newcastle were all up to no good. While Chelsea, Liverpool and Newcastle were all accused of dodgy attempts to sign up Middlesbrough youngster Nathan Porritt (now playing for Billingham Synthonia, poor lad), the Bolton and Portsmouth managers were accused of taking bribes for buying certain players and illegally tapping up a player respectively. Those managers? Who else but Sam Allerdyce and Harry Redknapp! Yes this isn’t the first time Big Sam’s been in trouble with the FA. Two agents claimed that they had both paid Allerdyce to sign their players via his son Craig. Big Sam of course denied it all and threatened to sue the BBC over the accusations, but never got around to actually doing it. Additionally the Telegraph reported that a third party was paid during the deal to bring Tal Ben Haim to Bolton. Surely not though, Big Sam would never deal in third party ownership, it’s against the rules! Oh, er… In fact, the FA’s inquiry into corruption in football found four Bolton transfers they were unhappy with (Ali Al-Habsi, Tal Ben Haim, Blessing Kaku, Julio Correia) stating their concern at “the conflict of interest that it believes existed between *Craig Allardyce,** his father Sam Allardyce – the then manager at Bolton – and the club itself.”* But Big Sam wasn’t the only one up to no good, in fact the FA was unhappy with transfers at Chelsea (Didier Drogba, Petr Cech, Michael Essien) and Middlesbrough (Fabio Rochemback, Yakubu Aiyegbeni) citing that agent Pinhas Zahavi refused to release his bank statements and initially did not disclose his involvement in the transfers at all, along with another agent Barry Silkman. They also took issue with transfers at Newcastle (Albert Luque, Emre Belözoğlu, Jean-Alain Boumsong, Amdy Faye) citing inconsistencies in evidence provided by Graeme Souness and Kenneth Sheperd, son of the then-chairman and refusal to co-operate from agents Willie McKay, Ahmet Bulut and Francis Martin in relation to the Emre and Luque transfers. Portsmouth (Collins Mbesuma, Benjani Mwaruwari, Aliou Cissé) were also in the mud again after Harry Redknapp apparently accepted the gift of a horse called Double Fantasy from Willie McKay. Jump ahead to 2007 now and the word on everyone’s lips has changed to arrest. Yes that’s right, ex-Portsmouth staff were being arrested all over the shop. Ex-manager Harry Redknapp? Nicked. Managing Director Peter Storrie? You’re nicked too. Ex-chairman Milan Mandaric? Ex-player Amdy Faye and agent Willie McKay? Get in the van the lot of you. Remember when Redknapp was on trail in 2012? Yep, this is why. In the end Redknapp and Mandaric were both found to have done nothing wrong when Mandaric transferred Redknapp $180k to a Monaco bank account owned by his dog Rosie. Apparently that’s all fine. 2008 was pretty much the same theme but with a then-Birmingham now-West Ham flavour. Karren Brady and David Sullivan were both arrested and released during the City of London’s investigation into corruption in football. David Gold was interviewed as well, but avoided getting arrested. After all this the FA brought charges against 5 agents: Sky Andrew, Mike Berry, Mark Curtis, Stephen Denos, and Andrew Mills for their involvement in the Luton Town transfers Mike Newall brought to light. All charges were eventually dropped and football decided that much like racism, the problem was solved. Cut n Paste from reddit
Trump to become England manager please log in to view this image DONALD Trump will be unveiled as England manager this Saturday, the FA has confirmed. After Sam Allardyce was sacked for listing Wembley Stadium on eBay, the England squad is to become Trumpland Raiders FC. Trump said: “This guy Sam hasn’t got them a game in, like, four weeks. Sad. But with me they will be playing every single day. Twice on Saturdays, you better believe me. “I have all the best football people, just the greatest. Ask Pele. Ask that gay-looking guy married to the singer, they’ll all tell you.” England players met the bullish university creator last night, with striker Wayne Rooney immediately bonding with the new manager over hair-sculpting regimes. The squad for next month’s qualifying match against Malta will be selected by pitting them against each other in a series of tests including running a pop-up bagel stand and launching a new type of men’s fragrance. Trump said: “We’re gonna go to Russia and we’re just gonna take the World Cup before a ball is kicked, I can totally make that happen.”
Leeds United - Club Statement Leeds United and Mr Cellino were contacted yesterday (Wednesday September 28) by the Daily Telegraph in relation to their investigation in football which has involved undercover reporters purporting to represent an investment and sports management company. The Daily Telegraph informed Leeds United and Mr Cellino that they were considering publishing an article and asked Leeds United and Mr Cellino to respond to a number of questions. Through the Club's solicitors, a request was made to the Daily Telegraph for a full copy of any transcript involving Mr Cellino and/or any related audio and visual recordings. The Daily Telegraph refused to provide such information and as such the Club declined to respond further at the time. The Club has reviewed the supposed "evidence" that the Daily Telegraph have published tonight. At no time in this video clip has Mr Cellino suggested getting around the FA's rules on third-party ownership of players. In complete contrast to what has been suggested, Mr Cellino has made a perfectly proper suggestion which is entirely consistent with the FA's regulations, as the only parties entitled to take benefit from ownership of a player is the Club itself. If a company commits money to a Club by way of investment, taking on the potential for profit but also the risk for loss, then that is a normal, every-day corporate process. This is plainly not a suggestion as to how to circumvent the rules, but rather, an accurate albeit concise explanation of how to operate within the confines of the rules and effectively become "the Club". The Club intends to make no further comment on this non-story. http://www.leedsunited.com/news/article/1qfi9kjm4fbzx12htsv575s2ta#sthash.YVvSQWpa.dpuf
If that were the simple truth, then sure. However, they're setting out to make the story, not to simply report on it. Plus, almost everything that's been announced so far has not been illegal or broken any rules, apart from 1. I'm not denying there are problems within football, there clearly are. The press should be looking higher up the food chain too, although as we know, its rarely the people at the top who pay. Look how long it took to get Blatter. The press should be reporting on the actual issues and problems, not making them for spurious headlines.
No they're not. They had shed loads of evidence of Allardyce's dodgy dealings over many years - that was the story. They simply arranged this bait that they knew he would take as the final conclusive evidence that he couldn't squirm out of.
