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My biggest gripe with what happened was that these negotiations with them were going on before Allardyce had even met the England players which seemed wrong on every level.xmiles wrote:whatsgoingon wrote:Interesting article and take on the Allardyce saga, it looks like it all started before he was England manager and that his appointment just exasperated things.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3835358/Sam-Allardyce-s-sacking-kills-says-agent-arranged-ill-fated-meeting-undercover-reporters.html
It does provide some more background and I still think it is unfortunate that Allardyce had to resign as England manager. Leaving aside the rights and wrongs of what he did (which really don't seem that heinous to me) there is no way that Southgate is a better manager than BSA.
This gives it more context, in that the England job came along in the middle of all this rather than Allardyce profiteering from the England job before he'd even started it.
None of that was outlined in the original pieces showing that the Telegraph was not just guilty of entrapment but was also very selective in the facts it presented in order to sensationalise the story as much as possible.
That said as soon as Allardyce had got the England job he should have walked away from all this.