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Bookies turn against England coach
LONDON: England manager Sam Allardyce is odds-on with bookmakers to lose his job following a newspaper sting that showed him ranting about a“corrupt” tax system,
LONDON: England manager Sam Allardyce is odds-on with bookmakers to lose his job following a newspaper sting that showed him ranting about a“corrupt” tax system, criticising the FA and seeking a lucrative role as an adviser in the Far East. Book maker William Hill cut the odds on Allardyce being sacked to 1-3 following a number of bets on Tuesday.
“We have seen hundreds of bets of up to £1,000 all for Allardyce to no longer be manager of England by the time they next take to the field ,” William Hill spokesman Joe Crilly said.
“You would have thought some details have been held back for later this week and we now think he’s as good as gone.”
Allardyce’s comments were the centre of debate in local and social media on Tuesday, with some condemning him for seeking to line his pockets so soon after his appointment and saying he should go.
Others suggested that his comments, when examined closely, did not amount to anything worthy of more than mild censure.
West Ham vice-chairman Karren Brady, who worked closely with Allardyce when he was the club’s manager from 2011-15, said: “This is a man who spent his whole life trying to get that job and got it in his 60s...and what a great shame if he loses that job through non-footballing reasons.”
In 1999 Glenn H odd le was sacked as England manager after comments he made about disabled people in a newspaper interview despite him apologising for a “serious error of judgement”.
