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The Yahoo Sport Question Of The Day: “Should Sam Allardyce be fired from the England job?”
Assuming the potential for a decision being made at any time, Yahoo Sport asked its football media friends to give an anomalously terse YES/NO answer to whether Big Sam should be shown the door.
Howard Nurse, BBC Digital Football Editor, www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football
NO.
Jordan Chamberlain, Editor, Empire of the Kop, www.empireofthekop.com
NO. It’s utterly ridiculous. Imagine the stuff you say when you think you’re in a safe environment. Doesn’t mean you’re a terrible person or bad at your job. Give the man a chance for goodness sake. Respected paper doing a hatchet job on him - and for what?
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John Henson, Founder of Proven Quality, www.provenquality.com
POSSIBLY. It certainly needs to be properly investigated. If the investigation finds the allegations to be true, then it’s hard to see how Allardyce can stay. The FA have taken very public moral stances against corruption charges at FIFA, and to keep their own man in his role after he is implicated in similar corruption appears hypocritical at best.
Simon Caney, ex Editor of Sport and MATCH magazines
NO.
Ash Davidson and Jonny Shepherd, Co-Founders of Bread And Butter Football, www.breadandbutterfootball.com
YES.
Mark Metcalf, football author and historian, www.spiksley.com
YES, he should be fired…from a great rocket.
Kadeem Simmonds, Sports Editor of the Morning Star, www.morningstaronline.co.uk
NO, I don’t think he should be sacked.
Ed Dean, Co-founder, Sportmate, www.sportmate.io
POSSIBLY. If any wrongdoing is proven ‘officially’ then he should go; his integrity is seriously challenged…the next 48 hours will be very interesting.
Alexander Kostin, www.smartbets.com
NO. Sure, the headlines don’t look great and the twitter vultures are circling in real time, but a bit of perspective, breathing space and long-term thinking that can often get lost in a modern day media frenzy is required.
It’s clear that Big Sam has lacked a little decorum and shown some naivety; however in the context of where England are at the moment and in comparison to previous crimes that have led to managerial dismissals, he should stay.
At no point did he take things any further than suggesting he’d have to get FA approval to take the role while quite rightly he gave bungs the wide berth. As for the rest of the comments, at worst it’s embarrassing for him that they’ve had to go any further than the dinner table. After all, let he who has never said anything similar about a former colleague over a few drinks cast the first stone.
It’s also worth comparing fan reaction to that of the pundits. Sam’s appointment always had cult appeal thanks to the more than passing resemblance to Mike Basset, something this incident only serves to reinforce. Providing he keeps England winning and gets the players fired up, particularly for the upcoming game against Scotland this will be forgotten just as quickly as the next football scandal rolls off the conveyor belt.
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Matt Stanger, Editor, The Set Pieces, www.thesetpieces.com
NO, he shouldn’t be fired. He was foolish, but there was nothing in the video to warrant his dismissal.
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