England ladies manager sacked.
Mark Sampson has been sacked as England women's manager following evidence of "inappropriate and unacceptable" behaviour in a previous role.
The Football Association says that last week it was made aware of the full details of safeguarding allegations against Sampson when he was Bristol Academy boss in 2014.
But a 2015 FA assessment found Sampson did not pose a risk.
Sampson was also cleared this year of wrongdoing following discrimination allegations made by England players.
more here -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41326806What I don't understand is that he's already been cleared several times for the stuff that he's now been sacked for?
And the £80,000 hush money they paid out what was all that about?
All seems very odd to me.
If he did something wrong he should have been sacked at that point - but as he wasn't and nothing new has changed why is he being sacked now?
OK I know the FA claim they have only just got the full details of a previous incident - but surely the FA who cleared him to be England manager must have had access to full details in order to clear him in the first place.
It all seems to have been a witch hunt against him in the end.
Reminds me very much of something similar that happened at British Cycling a year or so back - a very successful coach having to quit over a PR storm from a woman he deemed not good enough to win a medal - and certainly on that point he was absolutely right.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/38245106There's no smoke without fire they say but if either of them were such a 'bad um' how the hell did they get to the top of their respective sports - particularly in this day and age where everybody knows their rights and no one is slow in putting in a claim if things aren't going their way.