Barney Rubble
International Coach
Allardyce out of a job for life. Redknapp not exactly covered in glory either. Really quite shocking stuff.
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*Official* English Football Season 2006-07
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superkingdave
Hall of Fame Member
all a bit soft in the end for mine really
Jungle Jumbo
International Vice-Captain
Redknapp should be alright, he'll just get a strong ticking off by the FA. Allardyce is another matter, and after his son was so daft to give over such sensitive information so easily I don't think inter-family relations will be perfect.Barney Rubble said:
BoyBrumby
Englishman
Yeah, a lot of talk, but not very much in the way of hard evidence.superkingdave said:
Although I'd assume the BBC must've taken legal advice beforehand (hence I suppose the names being bleeped earlier) before naming names. Obviously they think they have enough dirt on Allardyce to make it stand up in court, as it were.
TT Boy
Hall of Fame Member
I actually missed this thinking it was on at 10.35pm, got mixed up with the gloriously depressing but hilarious Skint. However from just reading about it online, the names and clubs mentioned are not overtly surprising and according to all reports the stuff the BBC was not allowed to show was hugely damaging to the English game.
However I didn’t need Knut auf dem Berge to tell me that Harry is as bent as two ********s. Be interesting to see what action if any is taken regarding the people and clubs named.
However I didn’t need Knut auf dem Berge to tell me that Harry is as bent as two ********s. Be interesting to see what action if any is taken regarding the people and clubs named.
Barney Rubble
International Coach
Rest assured that if I ever happen to meet Mr Redknapp again, I will be having some stern words. As good a manager he is, he's also a despicably dishonest human being. It's been blatantly obvious ever since he claimed he'd never join Southampton - this is just the latest in a long line of things he's done that have dragged the club's reputation through the mud, just as we actually seem to be doing better on the pitch.
I really don't know whether I want him at the club or not.
I really don't know whether I want him at the club or not.
Barney Rubble
International Coach
Uncalled for!Matteh said:As if Gingers didn't have it hard enough...
PS, go to bed. it's 5.56am! I've just got up for work at 7am, ffs.....
BoyBrumby
Englishman
Unlikely I would've thought. A token slap on the wrist is all I'd imagine they'd get; maybe a suspended points deduction a la Chavski over the Cashley tapping-up.GeraintIsMyHero said:
I reckon we're more likely to see Fat Sam get his P45. I bet his son is standing on the naughty step chez Allardyce today too!
Craig
World Traveller
Well if Allardyce get's the **** who would take over?BoyBrumby said:Unlikely I would've thought. A token slap on the wrist is all I'd imagine they'd get; maybe a suspended points deduction a la Chavski over the Cashley tapping-up.
I reckon we're more likely to see Fat Sam get his P45. I bet his son is standing on the naughty step chez Allardyce today too!
I'm looking at Alan Curblishly.
Jungle Jumbo
International Vice-Captain
It was pointed out on the radio this morning that Redknapp appeared to do little wrong on the documentary last night. An agent turned up to his club wishing to speak to another player, and had a quick word with Redknapp. He stated that Andy Todd was unhappy at Blackburn, and Redknapp said he would be interested should the chance to buy him arise. I can't see too much wrong with that, since he isn't tapping up the player or having talks with him.Barney Rubble said:
Thats not to detract from your opinions about the rest of the man, Matt.
Barney Rubble
International Coach
Oh, you're right, the tapping up thing was a bit of a nothing incident really.Jungle Jumbo said:
However, I'm pretty much convinced Redknapp was the manager who almost took the extra £50,00* as part of the sting, but pulled out because of Newell's revelations. The player they blurred out could be fairly easily indentified as someone wearing a training jacket with "OKI Printing Solutions" on the back, meaning they were a Pompey player. They also looked suspiciously like Emmanuel Olisadebe, or perhaps Benjani Mwaruwari when he had much shorter hair. Either way, chances are Harry was mixed up in more than the programme let on - just ask Kevin Bond.
EDIT: Oh, and the Marriott hotel where the meeting was supposed to take place, along with various other places shown at around that time of the show, have been identified by numerous people on a Pompey forum I go on as being in Portsmouth. It's now almost universally accepted among Pompey fans that Redknapp was the one who almost took the £100k bung.
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