Sam Allardyce: What happens now? How long will the FA investigation last and who will decide whether he keeps England job?
England boss Sam Allardyce is hanging on to his dream job as he faces big questions from the FA bigwigs following a newspaper investigation into football corruption
SAM ALLARDYCE is facing a fight to keep his England job following claims he used his position as England boss to land a £400,000 deal.
Allardyce has only been in his dream job for one game and it could be his last as England boss following accusations he met with a bogus consortium, who were in fact undercover reporters posing as Far East businessmen who claimed they were interested in bringing overseas players to England.
Allardyce will have more questions to answer from the FA later and his fate could be sealed by the close of play today if the FA top brass are not convinced by his explanation.
The process will begin in earnest today, the FA have asked for evidence by undercover reporters to be handed over for them to look at to gauge any sort of context.
What evidence the FA gather will be poured over by the legal and governance departments, which could takes weeks or the whole sorry saga could be dealt with more swiftly today.
FA Chief Executive Martin Glenn, Chairman Greg Clarke and Technical Director Dan Ashworth will speak with Allardyce today to get his side of the story.
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From a moral and credibility point of the view, the problem the FA have is how can they look to dish out punishments to clubs when it come to third party ownership when the England boss is allegedly giving lesson on how to get around the rules?
Allardyce could simply hold his hands up and resign or the Executive could put the England boss out of his misery and say his position is untenable or grounds of morality.
If Big Sam is unable to present a strong defence then Glenn and Clarke could call an emergency FA board meeting to recommend his dismissal.
If Allardyce goes, he will still have to be investigated by the FA bigwigs from a disciplinary point of view as he will presumably still want to work in football.