Who next ??

And another one (Tommy Wright) bites the dust! FGS! Idiots!

MadMaisie, people know they have.

How low can he sink, to whine about 'entrapment'? He has lied, cheated and demonstrated that the millions he was to be paid every year are not enough for him. He is so greedy and unprincipled that he resorts to this kind of underhand behaviour. What a man , and he demonstrates what football has become - appalling behaviour ignored because the oaf concerned is a 'good' (i.e expensive) footballer, eye popping amounts of money paid to young men who then think they are bomb proof and have a sense of entitlement that is staggering. Ugh. Give me rugby any day!

The thing that surprised me most is that he didn't seem to think he had done anything wrong.

My DH always says that footballers' brains are in their boots these days - seems Managers are the same.

Why do people with more money than they can ever spend want more they are always the ones who try in some way to fiddle the system . I agree with you lizziepopbottle it's not just football prices we could alter a lot of things if we stuck together and refused to pay ridiculous prices from cost of theme parks , cinema ,s by not going for a while when you read what the top footballers and payoff that bankers etc get it's quite sick when a lot of people who work probably harder than them struggle to live week to week rant over

Is there a sport on this planet where there isn't some sort of corruption going on?

Donald trump is a dangerous Sam Alladarce is fool. That's the difference.

I've always had a soft spot for Big Sam! I met him years ago, and just fell for him, he was so nice to spend time with, and seemed a genuinely nice man.
I am SO disappointed in him now!
Yes, he was led on, yes he was hung out to dry, yes there was an element of entrapment......but really, how very stupid to have put himself in that position in the first place!
I feel really let down by his silliness and greed, not what I expected of the man at all!

Have just read in paper, he is getting a 6milion payoff!!! Can that be true? Talk about rewarding wrong doing!

What a stupid man. He wanted this top job all his life and then he goes and blows it away like this. Power really does seem to corrupt. It seems to me to be greed combined with a sort of 'showing off'. And then he has the nerve to complain about entrapment!

Football is all about money and gambling, the game is almost irrelevant.

Donald Trump has refused to publish his tax returns, the first presidential candidate not to do so for 50 years or more. Tells most people all they want to know about him.

Money is the root of all evil. Power corrupts etc etc

Fully trust no one that way you're never disappointed .

He seems to be blaming the newspaper for entrapment. What a cheek Sam, you were wrong, greedy and doing something morally wrong.

Also the FA said that it wasn't telegraph that prompted their action, so if it wasn't then funny coincidence and if they knew why wait until he was rumbled? Why employ him in the first place.

All very peculiar.

Youngsters must be drawn some very bad lessons from all this corruption.

Listening to radio 4 this morning. Apparently SA has always been known to be greedy for money and for at least the past 9 years it has been suspected that he has been involved with dodgy deals.

You've got to ask the question -why did the FA employ him as they must have been aware if these things.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.

Bible, book of Timothy.

Note, it is the love of it.

Why is there so much greed about, you read about it in all walks of life

There's a psychological reason for such people doing these underhand deeds. In general, they're risk-takers, which is why they've risen to the top. As such, they decide to take yet another chance because, so far, their risk-taking has led to positive results. Except this time, they're caught.

As my mother would say, pride comes before a fall.

I'm very disappointed in big Sam. I always thought, he was a straight talker. Down to Earth, called a spade a spade. I should have known better. None of them can be trusted. I'm glad, I'm no longer a football mad young man. I just thought, it was the poor football, that was putting me off. Now I realise, it's the whole corrupt game.

I agree with everyone who commented about the obscene amount of money paid to premiership footballers. I think people with lots of money always want more. The love of money is the root of all evil according to the saying. However, if big business (that's what football is to my mind and the fans on their everyday wages pay for it), if big business is grubby, so is the entrapment used to expose corruption and the lurid reporting that goes with it. You'd think that some of these greedy men would hesitate and wonder if a deal maybe sounds too good to be true. Does the suspicion never enter their heads or are they blinded by greed?
Football fans have immense power if only they'd use it. If enough of them stayed away for a few weeks in protest at the high price of match tickets and refused to buy the tacky (but ridiculously expensive) merchandise, maybe football would become more accessible and be reinstated as the 'people's game'. Time was when the only merchandise was a scarf in your team colours, often knitted by your mum!

Don't like what he did, such a greedy and stupid man. Also don't like the Telegraph for using underhand entrapment tactics, I am disappointed in them. But I am glad they got him nonetheless.

I don't think it is just the 'big names' who do this, many people do in small ways if they can get away with it. I know someone who wasn't charged for one of the items bought but didn't go back and tell the shop. Another time I was a passenger in a car which reversed into another, not hard, but didn't stop to see if any damage was done. It seems to be an attitude that, as someone previously said, its the 11th commandment.

If anyone is worried about who the next England Manager will be DH is available, he knows better than all the managers and all the referees. Oh yes, he also shouts at tennis players telling them they don't play as well as they should.