Sam Allardyce made a catastrophic misjudgement – it always comes down to money and greed
I AM absolutely stunned at the catastrophic misjudgement from Sam Allardyce.
To even agree to sit in a room with those guys is a huge error.
He’s clearly been badly advised.
Did none of his supposedly professional advisers think this was a bad idea?
But Sam is 61 years old.
He is a big boy.
He has been around football all his life and knows how the game works.
To make such a staggering error of judgement, you can’t look at anybody else but yourself.
I am really sad and I am really angry.
I am disappointed that football at the highest level is so scarred by this unsavoury underbelly driven by greed.
This situation is just a microcosm of the sport — it is all about money.
It always comes down to money and it comes down to greed.
The English game needs to take a good, long hard look at itself from every single level.
I thought we had hit rock bottom after the Euros in the summer.
How could things get any worse than that humiliating defeat to Iceland?
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But now look at us.
English football is a complete laughing stock — the laughing stock of world football.
I can’t think of a way that English football could be in a more embarrassing situation than it finds itself in right now.
Everyone knows this was Sam’s dream job, the one he had wanted all of his life, and one even he thought had passed him by.
You could tell what managing England meant to him.
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Just look at the excitement and passion he showed when Adam Lallana scored the winning goal with the last kick of the game in his first match in charge in Slovakia earlier this month.
So for it to end after one game in these circumstances is beyond comprehension.
It beggars belief that he would put himself in that position and, in the end, he left the FA with no choice.
They will have looked into everything and they were also probably scared of what else might come out in the next few days.
We will have to wait and see but it seems there is more to come — not only regarding Sam, but other managers as well.
Never have the FA been in a weaker and more embarrassing position.
Gareth Southgate is taking charge of the next four matches after he turned them down in the summer.
But you have to believe he can dictate terms now if he wants.
Whoever takes the job now will be able to as the FA are in such a sorry situation.
But that is the position we find ourselves in and we are going to have to accept that right now the football world is laughing at us.