It was a very bad day for English football (soccer for you American readers) when the manager with the highest winning percentage in the history of the English Football Association (FA) was sacked last month. Sam Allardyce, who was undefeated in his nearly three-month reign as the manager of the English national football team (1-0, but hey, undefeated is undefeated), got caught informing a newspaper undercover sting operation on how to cheat at football.
Allardyce was exposed in a video produced by the Telegraph. The 16-minute video shows Allardyce explaining how to get around the Premier League’s rules (and FIFA’s rules, as well) prohibiting third-party ownership, in which companies or individuals own some or all of a player’s economic rights. Allardyce was recorded as saying that there were those within the English football profession who had been breaking these rules for years, and then explained how potential investors could profit from the practice.
