Not sure how else you'd expect it to come out. These people aren't going to sit down with a visible camera and a journalist and admit to anything. The only time I'd be feeling uncomfortable with journalists doing this is if they set someone up who hasn't done anything and they are doing it to try and tempt someone down that route. That would be my definition of entrapment. It might be the case that sone of these are like that.
Anyone else wonder what time today the Telegraph informed us and/or whether that impacted any preparations prior to tonight's game?
The editor said they were naming 3 individuals at 3 clubs, so Sam, Jimmy & Eric. Plus Barnsley manager, Cellino, and the rest of the list if they actually do name them
Good question that. I have a feeling it may have been over the tannoy just as Prowsey floated that free kick over in the third minute. Virgil was just about to bullet a header into the net and it put him off.
Woops didn't see this thread. The board need to act quickly and decisively. There's already enough there for at least a suspension so let's not drag it out. I wonder what Ralph is thinking. I thought at the time of his comments he should of waited for everything to come out first. Also why are the Telegraph not giving us the full details?
Imagine the dressing room if it was during half-time and either Hugo or Barry Gale had to break the news!!!
Just sack the dude. I was always kind of dubious about him anyway. I wonder if he gets the job if he doesn't speak French? Puel's English is getting better. We have the money to get a good assistant and a good translator for Puel if he wants one.
If you mean not giving the club full details 'because the police need the info' but if you mean the public they are drip feeding us for more sales/they have enough info on each individual to create a whole story per case
Reckon Jordan Sibley will have to tell them at the start that Claude will only answer questions regards his team and the game against Leicester. Anything else will rightly be 'I cannot comment on that'.
Journalists arent the best solution for dealing with corruption. Clearly you need police investiagtions. If there is genuine corruption and illegal activity (which clearly there is) then the police should investigate it rather than the bloody telegraph.
Claude does not deserve this, or need this distraction. Feel sorry for him. He should be enjoying the build ups now (his English has improved vastly), but instead he will have to be really cagey and incoherent. Not fair at all.
Yes but clearly the police haven't been very successful have they? Journalism like this forces the issue out into the public in a way which would never otherwise happen.
Well, bye. And I have few qualms with this being 'entrapment'. Unless these journos had a guy positioned just off-camera with a gun, they merely dangled a carrot and these idiots were all too happy to grasp for it.
I wonder how much of this will turn out to be 'illegal' though. Sure it's against all kinds of rules within the game of football, and completely unethical, but how much/many of the individuals will actually be done for an unlawful crime according to the police?
Black looks like he may be kinda ****ed! Shame it was while he was with us as well, hel be sacked by the weekend.
Bribery is a crime - If that is what has happened. Admittedly it is very hard to draw full conclusions without all the information. The benefit of a police investigation is that peoples names arent dragged through the mud to try and make a quick buck. If not all the people named have done much wrong (Jimmy F-H as an example may not have done anything) then the press still tear into them. But the police can investigate and if someone is clean, their public image isnt completely tarnished.
Talking about illegal activities is not actually a crime unless you follow through and/or accept money. The worst you could say is that you are encouraging crime....which would be important if you were discussing a terrorist act or murder, but could Black be charged with corrupting these people as they raised the subject not him. He will probably be sacked for bringing the club into disrepute, but can't see a criminal charge sticking in this case.
