anyone just watched that football corruption programme?

[ItsMrAlex2u]

Big Sam is Toast !!!

[Indestructable]

Have i missed it?

[ItsMrAlex2u]

Yep it was on 9 - 10
Basically crucified allardyce and told the world that he takes bungs which are paid to him via his son who was an agent until he resigned recently !!

I bet the FA are breathng a sigh of relief they employed Mclaren !!!!

[Karabiner]

I thought it was mostly rather vague apart from Arnesen who was videoed dead to rights. 

A lot of that footage was a year old or more.

[Rooky9]

Yep it was on 9 - 10
Basically crucified allardyce and told the world that he takes bungs which are paid to him via his son who was an agent until he resigned recently !!

I bet the FA are breathng a sigh of relief they employed Mclaren !!!!

I think they may have known myself - though he was not proved in anyway to be involved. Alot of that industry is build on big talk and one upmanship....

[ItsMrAlex2u]

The stuff about sam was pretty conclusive, the amount of players that his son has brokered to bolton is rediculous. There is no way he has done nothing wrong

[Rooky9]

Wasnt too pleased to hear Mr Bond on the phone thou, given his new position

[Rooky9]

The stuff about sam was pretty conclusive, the amount of players that his son has brokered to bolton is rediculous. There is no way he has done nothing wrong

That wouldnt stand up though - you need evidence for these things. Having his son say something isnt even close to good enough.

I agree that Chelsea once again look to be in the most trouble.

[Dewi_cool]

too vague for me, not enough evidence, a lot of bravado

[Rookie (Rodney)]

Very interesting programme to watch. Chelsea will, no doubt, be in for a fine, as for Sam, who knows?

[ItsMrAlex2u]

The bit where the agent spotted the red light on the secret camera, the guy must of sh@t himself !!

[bolt pp]

too vague for me, not enough evidence, a lot of bravado

 

Abosoutly nothing to that program whatsoever IMO

[Triple X]

yep agree not much weight

shame as it is so corrupt and needs a proper investigation.

everyone knows but the FA are too useless to prove it - they need to get proper investigators like Kroll involved

something needs to be done

[AdamM]

biggest load of horseshit I've seen in a while. When I saw big Sam's face at the beginning I thought "oh no, what have you done?" I like the bloke and was disappointed. turned out that the programme showed a bunch of Agents and scouts acting like idiots and paper thin 'evidence' on the managers concerned.

at the top of the game the best players and managers are making a lot of money. below that there's a layer of ducking and diving wanna-be's trying to catch a quick buck off them. lots of pretending to be more important that they actually are.

There's no doubt Craig Allardyce had been Naive but I think he thought he was almost in a job interview situation and over played the role he had in the signing of players to Bolton.

Fact is teams like Bolton and Portsmouth don't have the luxury of signing Brazilian, Italian, Spanish, French superstars. they have to look to Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe. when the world cup comes round thats when they get a chance to do some bargain shopping and if an agent who says they represent 6 or 7 players in the world cup who are looking to move to the Premiership, accepting tickets to the World Cup doesn't constitute a bung as far as I'm concerned.

That Geordie Agent even SAID "don't offer Sam Allerdyce money, he won't take it. pay his son." So his son goes to Sam as an agent and says he's got a player to show him. If Sam thinks hes no good he won't sign him. if he likes him he will. simple as that.

I think at worst the two managers concerned could be accused of not being careful enough when talking to these toerags but seeing as they spent a year secret filming and couldn't get a single word from Sam and only a very brief conversation out of Harry (simply saying that he rated the Todd and hyperthetically would love to have him at portsmouth. he hardly made an offer) I'd say there was nothing more than circumstantial evidence and I seriously hope that when the FA clear the managers the sue the BBC.

There's plenty of corruption in football amongst agents, scouts, youth team coaches and the like. that will have to be the main focus of future investigation.

[Rooky9]

Its against regulations for harry to say what he did... I like toddy, I'd have him, you know i would.....he should never of even been in conversation with him by the rules.