Football | "Everyone knows he is a crook!" - Sports Agent on Big Sam

"He said ‘He’s the agent that will deal with it’. So the boy said ‘I have an agent’. Then Sam said ‘you don’t understand, you don’t get a contract unless this agent rings the chairman’.

"The agent was Allardyce’s agent. This has been going on for years. "You might expect a manager to be corrupt who was struggling or stuck for cash but it’s usually the managers that have a bit already.

"The lack of ethics is endemic. The FA itself has serious questions over it. You have to take them with a pinch of salt as they appointed Sam Allardyce as manager of the England football team."