Sam Allardyce: Agents’ chief Mel Stein slates FA for hiring Big Sam and says: ‘He’s not Mother Teresa’
Former Three Lions manager was axed after criticising Roy Hodgson and his Football Association employers
SAM ALLARDYCE is no Mother Teresa, according to agents’ chief Mel Stein.
Stein, whose former clients include Paul Gascoigne, spoke out a week after Big Sam was axed as England manager for slating former England chief Roy Hodgson and his FA employers.
The founder of the Association of Football Agents, Stein said: “I’m not suggesting we should be involved in appointing an England manager.
“But just like Jimmy Savile at the BBC, when people came out of the woodwork afterwards saying, ‘Well, everybody knew about Jimmy Savile’, if anybody had spoken to any of us about their last appointment (Allardyce), we would’ve said ‘You know what, he’s not Mother Teresa’.
“I’m not saying he’s guilty of anything but if you were looking for somebody who was going to not cause you any problem, probably Allardyce was not your man.
“He may well have been the best manager — and that’s a decision to make.”
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