Originally Posted by HANDJFAN:
“Remember as well that it was a Panorama documentary about Fergie's son which caused him to fall out with the BBC. Of course, Ferguson stated that this was all nonsense, but as far as I know he never did anything such as sue the BBC. He just said they were arrogant (not an unreasonable claim) and that Alistair Campbell had written a good piece in his book about them (not the best source!).
I'm sure this sort of thing was endemic, but I doubt it is at the highest level now because they all make millions. I'm sure the odd manager at the lower end of the Premier League could be tempted, but it would be extremely surprising to me if one of the established, big name Premier League managers was involved because they're all worth tens of millions.
That's what most surprises me about Allardyce, his estimated net worth is £10 million, he was on a £9 million contract, he was reportedly on exactly the same salary at Sunderland, he has other business interests, he's 61 years-old and is unlikely to go hungry, he will get other jobs in football after England is over...it is just abject greed.”
“Remember as well that it was a Panorama documentary about Fergie's son which caused him to fall out with the BBC. Of course, Ferguson stated that this was all nonsense, but as far as I know he never did anything such as sue the BBC. He just said they were arrogant (not an unreasonable claim) and that Alistair Campbell had written a good piece in his book about them (not the best source!).
I'm sure this sort of thing was endemic, but I doubt it is at the highest level now because they all make millions. I'm sure the odd manager at the lower end of the Premier League could be tempted, but it would be extremely surprising to me if one of the established, big name Premier League managers was involved because they're all worth tens of millions.
That's what most surprises me about Allardyce, his estimated net worth is £10 million, he was on a £9 million contract, he was reportedly on exactly the same salary at Sunderland, he has other business interests, he's 61 years-old and is unlikely to go hungry, he will get other jobs in football after England is over...it is just abject greed.”
Allardyce as you say is rumoured to be worth around £10 million but he still tried dipping his greedy dirty fingers in the till trying to get more so I think you could be wrong here and some pretty big names will be in the Telegraphs keepnet.




To bang on still about suing the Telegraph if they don't announce the names of the mystery eight is an indication to the state of the poor man.
