Yes, absolute rubbish I'm afraid. Why should they anyway? And let's face it, nobody on here ever mentions a losing bet.......

Best way to catch vermin... set a trap.

Entrapment is enough to get a court case thrown out for good reason, because its incitement and coercive.
Nobody gets carte blanche not even the press.

Talentless manager who has won f all and gets paid 3 million a year and still wants more. Lucky man to have got anywhere near the England job so deserves f all sympathy

Im not talking about the individual, since the press would likely go for low hanging fruit and stuff em up over a long period like a turkey and only release a contrived version of events to support their story.
All the press almost exclusively have nodded away like dogs in tacit agreement that the actions justify the means, yet they arnt the ones that decide that and its indicative of the types feeding from the same trough and dont want to criticise their bread and butter.
Only Mathew Syed of the Times has to my knowledge said anything about the problems with the way the press have acted. Its not unreasonable to suggest that any sector should itself be properly regulated.

Honesty, drive, ability.
Candidates must have all three.  If they have two from three you are in trouble.

England managers lack all three.

mesmerised,you come out often enough with some odd views,but you have surpassed everything thinking we would ALL be adulterers if the opportunity was there(especially with no risk of being caught).
   Some of us are decent people that have respect,and morals,and respect the marriage vows.You obviously don't,that's your choice.So don't put us in the same category as yourself!
   For my part I find it totally unacceptable that people holding high office,and so are well-paid,like footie managers,other top sportspeople,POLITICIANS etc.,can't be relied on to be honest,upright citizens.
  I don't like the gutter press,and only read racing papers,but exposing dishonesty needs to be done.

I think it's a shame he's gone. Were there not other discplinary routes to be taken? A fine etc to go to charity?

When he said he could get around transfer rules, there are loopholes everywhere and the bigger the business you're in the more you can find. As for backhanders from agents, do we really think that ONLY SAM gets offered them?

None of these things trouble the average fan. What troubles me is diving,feigning injuries, dissent, appealing for corners when you know it hit you last and managers like Hughes (one of many ) who use disgusting language to an FA employee (linesman) and get a silly fine. Why didn't Stoke sack him?

Is there anyone willing to admit they'd cheat if they knew they'd get away with it? Apart from Pope Bix and Pope Unbiased.

We live in more enlightened times, marriage is a very outdated concept conceived at a time when men needed to own women. It's not natural to be with just one women for the rest of your life, you are all attracted to many different women and if a bit of paper is stopping you fulfilling your needs in 2016 then it's a sorry state of affairs. Your wives and girlfriends think about cheating all the time and given half a chance, would cheat to if they haven't already.

better to be thought of as a fool than to put it into words and remove all doubt

Whose trying to be witty, just honest. If you're fairly old like Geordie (60) than you are more likely to hold these old fashioned views because of the era you were born in, a sin it was to have kids without being married, you are indoctrinated, a bit like religious people, you believe what you have been taught to believe, but in today's modern world, people have a more divergent way of thinking rather than linear, churches are emptying and closing.

People cheat all the time from Prime Ministers (Major), to Presidents (Clinton) to Newsreaders (Letterman) to actors (Jude Law) to models (Heidi Klum). It's a cheating world and there's nothing wrong with it, people do what their instinct tells them to, some are braver than others and act on it.

mesmerised,how low a level are you trying to reduce yourself to?You have already passed basement,not much further to go.What on earth has being faithful got to with religion?You certainly have warped views on life.Also it has nothing to do with old-fashioned values.Goodness knows what you teach your kids,that is if you have any.
  Integrity,honesty,reliability,respect,decency,being faithful,aren't old-fashioned values,or anything to do with religion,they are all about being a decent person.
  So because people at the top level are dishonest pieces of filth,setting a rotten example,that is acceptable to you,and the norm.For what it's worth,the crime rate amongst kids from single parent families is proportionately higher than those from married couples.
"It's a cheating world and there's nothing wrong with it",according to mesmerised.Is he on a mission to see how big a catch he can get in his net,as it appears to be the point of a statement like that!!??
  Nothing whatsoever to do with being "brave",more like being an untrustworthy piece of filth,rotten right through.

Law abiding citizen here, I don't break laws I bend rules that are there to be bent and have no issue with others who do the same if it means they can get ahead in life, although even with the wealthy, I have no problem with tax avoiders, this country spunks an insane amount of money on everything and anything from quango's to helping people feel more European to buying giant stones outside of hospitals because that apparently helps their well being, that 20k would have paid a nurses salary for a year, so if people choose to keep their money by legal means and spend it the way they see fit that's fine by me. Nothing to do with seeking attention, it's a viewpoint that many people hold.

You'd make someone a lovely wife Charlene

Greed is a small part of human nature. Money speaks many languages as they say. Sam must have huge regrets.

That's quite correct, they are businesses, and when they say 'in the public interest' what they are actually saying is 'what we say you should be interested in'.
Not for the good of the public good or morals or integrity, but in something that pays.
That is why those that create the content shouldn't be the ones regulating themselves because they too are acting for money alone.

Greedy b****** The more money they get, the greedier they get. Best job in English football and the job all managers want with 3 million a year but still not enough. No scruples whatsoever. His own fault and he must be sick as a parrot - at getting caught out, that is.

Diff-rent
I am not sticking up for Sam and he accepts he has done wrong. But I do not agree with the way the press go about destroying people's careers for the sake of selling it and making money. (Entrapment).



This is EXACTLY the type of thing newspapers have a responsibility to report. Allardyce's career should have been cut short years ago for his one-dimensional, Neanderthal brand of hoof ball blighting the beautiful game. That it took a leading broadsheet to expose him on an entirely different subject is of no consequence.

Baffling that anybody has any sympathy for fat sam esp with his long history of known dodgy dealings, hmmm maybe the telegraph just picked his name at random? Whomever advised him to portray himself as 'just doing a mate of 30 years a favour' should be shot as well. Turning up for the meeting is 'doing a mate a favour', staying there with your financial advisers and lawyer (who obv aren't 100% innocent) and discussing obviously dodgy dealings that enrich you with complete and utter strangers when you've just been appointed England manager on a multi million pound contract (when one knows one may have been out of one's old job very soon anyway) is pure avarice and stupidity.
Anybody that thinks Eng haven't dodged a hail of bullets with this, as it's obv something would have come out at some point very soon, needs a good think!

If it's any consolation I can actually appreciate why people might not see it the way I do, but just consider this.

What we are seeing before us is a show trial outside of court by a public opinion which is lead by a party who supplies contrived and selective evidence that they have a vested interest in.

That to me isn't what our system should be trumpeting as some vestibule of virtue.