Allyrdace getting sacked already?

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    Wow, he's been after that gig for years, and he throws it all away.
     
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    the English FA is getting to be more and more of a joke.
     
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    Fat Sam will go down as the most successful England manager ever. Won 100% of his games without ever conceding a goal.

    He got busted by an undercover sting about bribes back in 06. You'd have thought he'd learned from that.
     
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    How the hell do you charge for advising people how to deal with the entity that governs your entire business and metes out punishment to YOU for same? It'll be interesting to see how far this little conflagration progresses. I doubt everyone who should lose their job, will. Ain't that what lawyers are for? Still, very troubling.
     
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    All of this is down to one thing: in the US the leagues vet the contracts and the player pays his agent. In Europe, the team pays the agent's fees in all transfers. Managers also have agents and, in many cases, player transfer decisions are based on that. I know we signed a couple of useless players because they had the same agent as Jol.

    What drives me nuts is that despite the fact that there have been dozens of major corruption scandals in terms of match fixing across Europe, there's still no concern about the HUGE investment gambling has in pretty much all European leagues. Just check out the kit sponsors.
     
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    Europeans don't seem to care about gambling related corruption. God knows, they've been at it long enough. Reminds me of the salad days of the now defunct Keeneland July Selected Yearling sale in the mid-80's. Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum of the United Arab Emirates would park his customized Boeing 707 across the gate from the track to intimidate other buyers. Except British soccer pools baron Robert Sangster didn't flinch. Between them, they still hold the records for the most expensive yearling thoroughbreds ever, both Northern Dancer colts. The Sheikh plunked down $10.2 million for Snaafi Dancer in '83; Sangster bought Seattle Dancer two years later for $13.1 mil. My point? If you can make enough money to go toe to toe and beat an official government oil tycoon, what's the motivation to change anything? As long as that kind of money can be made gambling on soccer, these kinds of problems will continue, ad infinitum.
    The money's just too addicting.
     
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