Alanbileysfeathercut
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Says he'll miss the changing room
Mark Sampson sacked by FA
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Alan Whittle
Player Valuation: £70m
WHY? WHY? WHY?
The FA paid out £80,000; not because of any guilt you understand but so that England's preparations were not upset prior to a major tournament.
They then have an enquiry which exonerated him.
Have a second enquiry again clearing him even though he changed his statement during the course of the enquiry.
Then they get cold feet and sack him to show how decisive they are and how they will stamp out racism.
The FA should hold an enquiry into who hired him and who backed him but what are the chances of anyone being found culpable.
They then have an enquiry which exonerated him.
Have a second enquiry again clearing him even though he changed his statement during the course of the enquiry.
Then they get cold feet and sack him to show how decisive they are and how they will stamp out racism.
The FA should hold an enquiry into who hired him and who backed him but what are the chances of anyone being found culpable.
The binman chronicles
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Well kind of ruins the joke if i have to explain it....hold on I see what you done.
Alan Whittle
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Forgive me, I just couldn't take anymore.lolWell kind of ruins the joke if i have to explain it....hold on I see what you done.
There you go.. I'm sure what he did was pretty unpleasant and, hitherto, swept under the carpet. So now they decide to come out with it all rather than just give him the chance to resign. As ever the media gets their man and can comfortably tar and feather him.
Clearly what he was supposed to have done, three years ago, is unacceptable (though plainly not illegal we are told). So why the full public exposure now? Because - as per usual - it's about one side looking the good guy and the other side not.
Clearly what he was supposed to have done, three years ago, is unacceptable (though plainly not illegal we are told). So why the full public exposure now? Because - as per usual - it's about one side looking the good guy and the other side not.
bluerobert
Player Valuation: £35m
The Grauniad says:
All clear then....
"The governing body’s chief executive, Martin Glenn, said the decision to terminate Sampson’s contract was obvious after he became aware of the “full detail” of inappropriate relationships the Welshman had with female players while he was manager of Bristol Academy.
It is the second time in less than a year that Glenn has been forced to hold a hastily convened press conference to explain the departure of an England manager for off-field reasons. Questions about whether due diligence was done in the hiring of Sampson are bound to be asked, particularly as it comes almost 12 months to the day since Sam Allardyce departed after a newspaper sting.
It is understood claims made by the former England striker Eni Aluko to the Guardian of bullying, harassment and racial remarks prompted a whistleblower outside the FA to urge Glenn to read the full report into safeguarding allegations made against Sampson.
The allegations relate to Sampson’s time at Bristol Academy, where he worked first with 10- to 16-year-olds at the centre of excellence and later as the senior first-team coach. The allegations were made by more than one player and are said by the FA chairman, Greg Clarke, to range from the “trivial to the very serious”.
Sampson was deemed fit to continue as England manager after the FA’s safeguarding and investigations team conducted inquiries when the allegations were first made in March 2014. Glenn, who joined the FA 12 months after that, insists he was first told of the investigation in October 2015. He read the full report only last Wednesday and later passed it on to Clarke.
Glenn admitted regret that Sampson had been allowed to occupy a position of such power and influence for almost four years. “There was a full investigation, a proper investigation, an assessment process and when the report concluded in March 2015 he was deemed not to be a safeguarding risk,” Glenn said. “However, the full report of that investigation was only made known to me last week.
“On reading it I immediately shared it with Greg and we were both deeply concerned with the contents of the report. Let’s be really clear: no laws were broken; Greg and I are not able to challenge the professional views of our safeguarding experts. We thought the conduct issues raised in the report was the problem. Mark had overstepped the professional boundaries between player and coach. We know that coaches are in a potential position of power and that position mustn’t be abused. We have to be really clear and I think we are at the FA, about what we stand for in that respect.”"
It is the second time in less than a year that Glenn has been forced to hold a hastily convened press conference to explain the departure of an England manager for off-field reasons. Questions about whether due diligence was done in the hiring of Sampson are bound to be asked, particularly as it comes almost 12 months to the day since Sam Allardyce departed after a newspaper sting.
It is understood claims made by the former England striker Eni Aluko to the Guardian of bullying, harassment and racial remarks prompted a whistleblower outside the FA to urge Glenn to read the full report into safeguarding allegations made against Sampson.
The allegations relate to Sampson’s time at Bristol Academy, where he worked first with 10- to 16-year-olds at the centre of excellence and later as the senior first-team coach. The allegations were made by more than one player and are said by the FA chairman, Greg Clarke, to range from the “trivial to the very serious”.
Sampson was deemed fit to continue as England manager after the FA’s safeguarding and investigations team conducted inquiries when the allegations were first made in March 2014. Glenn, who joined the FA 12 months after that, insists he was first told of the investigation in October 2015. He read the full report only last Wednesday and later passed it on to Clarke.
Glenn admitted regret that Sampson had been allowed to occupy a position of such power and influence for almost four years. “There was a full investigation, a proper investigation, an assessment process and when the report concluded in March 2015 he was deemed not to be a safeguarding risk,” Glenn said. “However, the full report of that investigation was only made known to me last week.
“On reading it I immediately shared it with Greg and we were both deeply concerned with the contents of the report. Let’s be really clear: no laws were broken; Greg and I are not able to challenge the professional views of our safeguarding experts. We thought the conduct issues raised in the report was the problem. Mark had overstepped the professional boundaries between player and coach. We know that coaches are in a potential position of power and that position mustn’t be abused. We have to be really clear and I think we are at the FA, about what we stand for in that respect.”"
All clear then....
Two, one to change the light bulb and one to turn a blind eye and appoint Sam Allardyce.
Stoke that furnace, Whit...
gorgeousgeorgeEFC
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Eniola Aluko, a former England star of Nigerian heritage, claimed that Mark Sampson once joked that he hoped her Nigerian relatives didn't bring Ebola into Britain when they came over.
If true, that was a grotesque remark.
If true, that was a grotesque remark.
I never knew he was Welsh but that explains a lot.
One thing about this that struck me is that the players seemed to side with him over Aluko (If you can read anything into that Russia game)
Suggests she might not be very popular in that dressing room, because if he was guilty I don't see how you could support him as a fellow player unless you had some beef with Aluko, and even then I'd have to question you still backing him
Suggests she might not be very popular in that dressing room, because if he was guilty I don't see how you could support him as a fellow player unless you had some beef with Aluko, and even then I'd have to question you still backing him
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The binman chronicles
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Sounds like she took offense to a joke 'don't bring back ebola', obviously it's a bad joke but not sure how anything can be made of it. Which is probably why the others are supportive, that and they don't want Hope Powell back.
I'm glad I work from home else I'm pretty sure I would lose my job quickly due to the PC ultras.
Well it carries racial connotations, that's why stuff has been made of it, and fair enough
You shouldn't make racially insensitive jokes to black people when you're a wealthy white man in a position of authority. That's just common sense
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