England won't get relegated from the World Cup - anticipate two years of The Big Sam delivering the international module here

Hope he's fiendishly tearing through Tinder

logging a chardonnay into untapped

"notes of bitterness, no, no, i'm allowing my feelings to taint the module."

gotta say, he is definitely a dick, and i agree that he was targeted based on past transgressions, but i still feel a lot of sympathy for him this evening.

his next job is gonna be some rage-filled shit. looking forward to a telegraph journalist asking him a question.

There will have been no serious appetite for the decision that was eventually taken unless it was unavoidable

would just like to point out that mold-green incorruptible Steve Bruce is available

steve bruce's failure will be just like watching, i dunno, people complain about suburban rail into london. watching sam's failure with the slight chance/hope/fear he might succeed was like this incredible story - this is the only boring way it could have ended.

Torygraph apparently all sorts of choice revelations about other Prem. managers up its sleeve.

Veni vidi allardici

He should not expect a great deal of sympathy but in the grand scheme of managerial scandals it is certainly a few notches down from the passage in Joey Barton’s newly released autobiography about the “creative accounting” of one manager (though not one, he says, he ever played under) whose “speciality was making late substitutions on the understanding his assistant would later collect a percentage of the player’s match fee”. That manager, according to Barton, was infamous for giving homegrown players their debuts, sometimes just for a few minutes, so the academy director would collect a bonus, to be split again. The manager would re-sign players he had worked with at other clubs and take a cut from them, too – paid monthly, and invariably in cash.

Who?

Redknapp surely

I suppose so. Does he qualify as "famous for giving homegrown players their debuts"?

I was thinking Keano. Or Moyesey god knows that poor man doesn't need anything else on his plate.

Mourinho

they described one of them as "long-serving" which basically reveals it. are we on shaky ground discussing this speculation here?

if the telegraph attempts an ilx sting this speculation will be the least of our worries surely

Fair

Who?

Yes, that one was glaringly obvious.

Bruce has got to be up to his neck in this shit, a low-level chequebook manager like him not makin shitloadz of scrilla on tha side seems unlikely.

bruce resigns in ghostwritten book trilogy scandal

lol!

a group of investigative journalists posing as a consortium of Tyneside businessmen arranged a £40 deal for a fourth instalment of the book, unbeknownst to the FA

only time i've ever felt a slither of sympathy for allardyce was when i discovered on 5live last night that he'd once tried to get the bbc to sack alan green.

Yeah but who among us hasn't at some point?

I look forward to the Telegraph dramatically revealing a PL club was almost certainly bought with the proceeds of heroin trafficking shortly.

obv happy that allardyce sacked, not that igaf about england just for the sheer amusement but these telegraph revelations are such weak sauce. a couple of agents ran their mouths about 8 PREMIER LEAGUE!!! managers shock horror but nothing approaching proof, not even enough 'evidence' to name them. the way they and the rest of the media talk you'd think it was end of times not something that will be forgotten about by the time the next int. break is over.

ok who had hughes, warnock, and redknapp down?

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OH FUCK NO

someone put this into this plz

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/28/exclusive-the-corruption-at-the-top-of-the-championship/

https://screenshotmachine.com/

fucking heart skipped a beat at that url :p

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CteBgJTXgAAyDKY.jpg

aaaarrrrrrrghhhhhhhh

at a branch of Pret a Manger in west London, on August 25, Hasselbaink discussed terms as he sipped a cup of green tea

EXCLUSIVE CHINESE INCURSION INTO THE EFL

Meanwhile, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, the manager of Queens Park Rangers, another Championship side, was filmed agreeing to represent the same firm by flying to the Far East to talk to investors for £55,000 a time.

He appeared open to the idea of signing players owned by the firm, despite the possibility of a conflict of interest. He told undercover reporters posing as representatives of the company: “Give me a ----ing player. A good player.”

could i read the article please

nm i got it

have the FA sacked Allardyce on the basis of evidence that they don't currently believe is sufficient to remove any other manager?

just checking

yes, but tbh i actually do agree that the national manager isn't any other manager

just mourning my lost prince

Rooney in midfield and Lingard on the wing bcos, as Southgate put it "He's in a good moment with his form". Paddy Power offering 75/1 on a nil-nil, may lump on a few quid just for lols

Southgate is such a gentleman he's clearly establishing his "unfit for the job" credentials nice and early

nah, Rashford will come on and rescue it xpost

Lingard is a strange one. His supporters praise his "movement", which tbf is probably superior to most of the statuesque fuckers Utd have up front, but he regularly goes through entire games without having any direct positive influence. And then every ten games or so he'll pop up with something like the Cup final or Charity Shield goal.

Managers seem to like him because he does as he's told and runs around a lot, and Southgate obviously knows him well from the u-21s

So it would appear that England are still shite but, worry not, for, according to Tyldesley, 'two or three' of the goals Scotland scored against Malta were 'fortuitous'.

wish i'd watched this now, sounds funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1txLJu5BBsA

^ benched

He should not expect a great deal of sympathy but in the grand scheme of managerial scandals it is certainly a few notches down from the passage in Joey Barton’s newly released autobiography about the “creative accounting” of one manager (though not one, he says, he ever played under) whose “speciality was making late substitutions on the understanding his assistant would later collect a percentage of the player’s match fee”. That manager, according to Barton, was infamous for giving homegrown players their debuts, sometimes just for a few minutes, so the academy director would collect a bonus, to be split again. The manager would re-sign players he had worked with at other clubs and take a cut from them, too – paid monthly, and invariably in cash.

― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Wednesday, September 28, 2016 7:27 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Who?

― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Wednesday, September 28, 2016 7:28 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Redknapp surely

― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Wednesday, September 28, 2016 7:52 AM (one week ago)

I've heard rumours of this type around Warnock for years.

when he was at Town he fell out with the chairman over some misunderstood verbal agreement for him to have his own club merchandise shop in the town centre .. the bloody shameless grifter!

jason puncheon was fined 15k for publicly accusing him of the re-signed player racket, but homegrown debuts doesnt really check out - given maybe like five in the last decade iirc