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There are some nice suited gentlemen there and the bloke who should have got the job in the first place. Can the FA replace someone who didn't have the common sense to keep his mouth shut with a bloke who didn't have the common sense to....? I very much doubt it.
 
I wonder if Hodgson's having a little chuckle to himself today?
I'd be tempted to in his position, but I suspect he's not that kind of man.
 
Sam Allardyce has give his resignation speech to The Daily Telegraph:

“The most corrupt business in our country would be what? You’ll be shocked when I tell you this – HMRC."

“They fly out tax demands without any real knowledge whether they should or shouldn’t. It’s the most corrupt business in the country at the minute,“They just put ‘em out willy-nilly and if you pay them, people s*** themselves and pay them."

“Then they go to their accountant and say, and if you’ve got a s*** accountant, the account s**** himself and says, well you must owe them, you had better pay it."

“Most of the punters don’t owe it. In fact most of the punters, actually the taxman owes them money. But because the country’s so skint, they come to government and say we’re skint, government says we’re skint how we gonna get the money. Let’s change the laws and let’s just fly out these demands.“If you invested in this tax scheme, where they pay the tax back, for investing in new businesses, or in regeneration zones, do you know what I mean, in current poverty areas.

“But HMRC, you have to pay it back even if you don’t owe it. The most corrupt, it’s the most corrupt business in the country at the minute, HMRC”.

Thanks, Sam. He waited 20 years for the gig and he didn't even get to manage 1 game at Wembley. Pillock!
 
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The Telegraph tried this with a bunch of managers, apparently. This story has legs.
I know who I'd have gone after in their position and a few of them are already on the edge.
Any manager with Premier League experience that's currently looking for a job will be in luck.
 
"Thanks for that Brian" said:
Sam Allardyce has give his resignation speech to The Daily Telegraph:

“The most corrupt business in our country would be what? You’ll be shocked when I tell you this – HMRC."

“They fly out tax demands without any real knowledge whether they should or shouldn’t. It’s the most corrupt business in the country at the minute,“They just put ‘em out willy-nilly and if you pay them, people s*** themselves and pay them."

“Then they go to their accountant and say, and if you’ve got a s*** accountant, the account s**** himself and says, well you must owe them, you had better pay it."

“Most of the punters don’t owe it. In fact most of the punters, actually the taxman owes them money. But because the country’s so skint, they come to government and say we’re skint, government says we’re skint how we gonna get the money. Let’s change the laws and let’s just fly out these demands.“If you invested in this tax scheme, where they pay the tax back, for investing in new businesses, or in regeneration zones, do you know what I mean, in current poverty areas.

“But HMRC, you have to pay it back even if you don’t owe it. The most corrupt, it’s the most corrupt business in the country at the minute, HMRC”.

Thanks, Sam. He waited 20 years for the gig and he didn't even get to manage 1 game at Wembley. Pillock!
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He's got a point, they still owe me 1100 quid, which they admit and I have in writing, but there's no bloody sign of it.
 
vimhawk said:
As an aside, there are many "reputable" institutions that make a lot of money out of giving advice on tax avoidance so the people who can most afford to pay tax don't have to. There is rarely a public outcry about such things, and continual reference to tax avoidance is ok but tax evasion is bad (they both sound bad to me!) Isn't Sam kind of giving rules avoidance advice? In which case why the moral outrage at football that doesn't seem to be leveled often enough at the tax avoidance issue? Interested to hear if he's actually giving rules evasion advice.
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The problem is that the tax code is so complicated that it has lots of loopholes. The more money you have the more likely you are to find someone clever who you can pay to find a way of reducing your bill. But as they try to close the loopholes they start catching people in Deedub's situation. Making it all simpler would help but changing it now would just create random winners and losers and that would be very unpopular.
 
The basic premise is this :

The England job pays enough money and there is enough work already that
Allardyce should have been able to say "Conflict of interest here. We are done." .
 
"Thanks for that Brian" said:
Sam Allardyce has give his resignation speech to The Daily Telegraph:

“The most corrupt business in our country would be what? You’ll be shocked when I tell you this – HMRC."...”.

Thanks, Sam. He waited 20 years for the gig and he didn't even get to manage 1 game at Wembley. Pillock!
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Based on his financial acumen/arrangements, he may be perfectly placed in the very
near future to put his past comments to the test about what he could/would achieve
if he managed Get real Madrid.
 
Apparently, Sam's had his 67 day reign. I wonder if he'll reprise his mate Roy's "I don't know what I'm doing here" press conference appearance.

To all those who doubted him, he leaves undefeated with a 100% win record in competitive games. See, not so bad was it?
 
Late to the party as I have been having my sides stitched after laughing too hard!!
Absolutely no sympathy for this greedy twat and surprised there's not more concerted vilification on here....
A couple of weeks after getting his lifetime dream job of England manager and a £3.5m salary, avarice takes control and he throws it all away for another £400k of dodgy business.
A set-up it may well be, but I think it's actually part of a long-running piece of investigative journalism into nefarious practices in football and there will likely now be a drip feed of further relevations over the coming days and weeks - bit like the MP's expenses scandal.
From what is already in the public domain and the potential fallout for the FA, it is difficult to see how Allardyce can possibly talk his way around this and keep his job.
However, that might just be the start of his problems..... going public with comments calling the HMRC a corrupt organization is never a great idea, specially when you are also in the spotlight for seeming to advocate support for financial irregularity!! I can imagine he might be subject to a surprise inspection in the near future

For me he was a bad choice to start with, compounded it with his ridiculous comments about not telling Rooney where to play and now opens himself (and the FA) up to ridicule. If he does go, then good riddance!

Obviously, if it's all a fabricated story and he is totally innocent then I will unreservedly apologise to the man! <laugh>
 
"Thanks for that Brian" said:
Apparently, Sam's had his 67 day reign. I wonder if he'll reprise his mate Roy's "I don't know what I'm doing here" press conference appearance.

To all those who doubted him, he leaves undefeated with a 100% win record in competitive games. See, not so bad was it?
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Another England manager who never dropped Rooney for a single game. :(
 
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