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Last night Panorama accused several big names of taking bungs but on evidence that was so flimsy you’d be scared to blow you nose with it. Lets examine the evidence on their big bust, none other than Sam Allardyce.
The team (led by a guy called Cnut, who is clearly dyslexic) tried to set up a dodgy agent, Peter Harrison, by saying, if you can prove that you’ve got managers on the take then we’ll buy your agency off you for the best part of £2m.
Peter: er… okayyy, yeah sure, I’ve got loads of managers on the take, so will you buy my company now?
Cnut: cool, so who’s on the take and what kind of money are they looking for?
Peter: well, there’s….. erm….no… oh, hang on there’s Sam Allardyce. I’ve got the contract ready for you to buy my company.
Cnut (leaning forward to get the money shot): So Sam Allardyce, of Bolton Wanderers, is a big fat cheat and is taking bungs on all his transfer deals?
Peter: That’s right… well I say Sam, but what I mean is his son, and I say bungs, but what I mean is that I do legitimate deals with Bolton and sort out his son with a few bob for doing the introductions. Are you still going to buy my company?
Cnut: So Sam is a dirty big cheat then?
Peter (looking at him funnily): oh yeah… but if a bung don’t work you can take them on a scouting trip to the world cup… If you buy my company I’ll give loads of bungs to anyone you want me to.
[cut to Craig Allardyce, Sam’s son, who is also a dodgy agent]
Cnut: so you speak directly to your dad do you?
Craig: Oh, yeah all the time, I just call him up and talk to him like.
Cnut: so he knows you talk to him directly
Craig (also looking at Cnut in a funny way): Yes, he’s on the other end of the phone. If I want to tell him about a player I call him directly, or sometimes I’ll tell the chief scout directly.
[cut to BBC studios]
BBC reporter: so Craig, you admit that you do deals and get paid for it
Craig: Yeah, that’s me job, I’m an agent, I sort out transfers and get commission, its how agents earn a living.
BBC reporter: So your Dad knows that you do deals and get paid for it, and is he happy about that?
Craig: Yes he knows and I hope he’s happy for me, its me job, if I did it for nothing I wouldn’t be a very good agent would I?
BBC: well there you have it, Sam Allardyce is a no good dirty lying cheating scumbag and we have proved it by encouraging dodgy agents to tell stories about him.
Next week on Panorama an in-depth investigation on how the BBC wastes the public money on dodgy investigations and subsequent law suits.
Well it’s now 3 years later and Big Sam has yet to do anything against the BBC. Perhaps, y’know, Panorama hit the nail on the head.
These people are bleeding football dry with the bungs that go on. Obviously that’s fine by you and you’re happy to see your cash go into their offshore accounts.
The only people who should get the sack are the makers of the Panorama program.
You might be right about Alan Green, he’s a spiteful little man and I wouldn’t have put it past him to have pointed his fellow “journalist” Sam’s way. He is sickeningly biased against any team that has the affrontery to stand up and beat his precious Liverpool. He should be the one that Panorama are investigating.
Excellent! As a Bolton fan I worry that if you throw enough shít some of it will stick. I trust Sam to do all he can to keep BWFC going in the right direction. His son, I don’t give two f**** about unless he drags my team’s name through the mire.
I think this may be payback time for Big Sam banning Alan Green and BBC Radio Five from The Reebok for the hatchet job he did when Bolton beat Liverpool last season.
Craig – based on last night’s program, hopefully there’ll be a few journalist positions coming up….
Jon – just read your piece and I hadn’t realised Martin Bashir was involved in the program – should have guessed!
At best last nights programe was sixth form stuff, they even mentioned Gudjohnsens transfer and the agents fee of £1m, which makes it all sound really bad until you realise that it was Todd who sold Gudjohnsen, not Allardyce.
I really hope Allardyce sues their arse off – this was a character assasignation of the worst sort.
Ha ha! That’s brilliant mate and makes exactly the point I was trying to.
http://www.the-wanderer.co.uk/article.php?article_id=439
First class journalism, have you ever thought of working for the BBC?
I’m sure there are bungs going on, but after all the hype and coverage given to this program it was a real disappointment to see them try to castigate managers based on innuendo and general anecdotes from shadey characters looking for an opportunity to make a quick buck.
Very disappointing
brilliant, i’d rather pay to read this than pay my license fee!
I think you are quite correct, in that the BBC failed to produce any notable evidence. The supposedly guilty comments made by the guilty parties were all loose enough that they can be explained away as bravado, either for personal reasons or to make a commercial profit.
This is not to say that there are not people engaged in dodgy deals – I just don’t feel that this investigation uncovered anything definitive.