# Big Fat Sam - Telegraph Sting **URL:** \ **Category:** Football\ **Created:** [26 September 2016 23:57 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/big-fat-sam-telegraph-sting/2390 "2016-09-26T23:57:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JxgrSaint](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/jxgrsaint/32/109_2.png) [@JxgrSaint](https://www.sotonians.com/u/JxgrSaint)\ **Post date:** [26 September 2016 23:57 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/big-fat-sam-telegraph-sting/2390/1 "2016-09-26T23:57:07Z")
> **[Exclusive investigation: England manager Sam Allardyce for sale](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/26/exclusive-investigation-england-manager-sam-allardyce-for-sale/)** > > Sam Allardyce used his position as England manager to negotiate a £400,000 deal and offered advice to businessmen on how to “get around” FA rules on player transfers, The Telegraph can disclose. Sam Allardyce caught in a Telegraph sting mocking Roy Hodgson’s speech impediment; saying the FA are greedy bastards; calling Wembley overpriced; explaining how to circumvent 3rd party ownership rules and negotiating a huge speaking fee. I think oops might be the operative word for this one - FA have asked the Telegraph for the full facts of the investigation and meet today to discuss what to do. Be bloody spineless not to sack him IMO… _Poll ([view on site](https://www.sotonians.com/t/big-fat-sam-telegraph-sting/2390/1))_ * * * ---
**Author:** ![PhilippineSaint](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/philippinesaint/32/3978_2.png) [@PhilippineSaint](https://www.sotonians.com/u/PhilippineSaint)\ **Post date:** [27 September 2016 00:10 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/big-fat-sam-telegraph-sting/2390/2 "2016-09-27T00:10:10Z")
Is the fake sheikh not up in court at the moment? It will just get swept under the carpet and ignored . ---
**Author:** ![Cobham-Saint](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/cobham-saint/32/99252_2.png) [@Cobham-Saint](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Cobham-Saint)\ **Post date:** [27 September 2016 05:45 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/big-fat-sam-telegraph-sting/2390/3 "2016-09-27T05:45:40Z")
Agree with Phil, it’ll probably be swept under the carpet. Not knowing all the facts, I wonder how much he was lead on by the reporters to get a “story”? The gutter press are not always the paragons of virtue that they claim to be. ---
**Author:** ![Polski\_Filip](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/polski_filip/32/75318_2.png) [@Polski\_Filip](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Polski_Filip)\ **Post date:** [27 September 2016 07:00 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/big-fat-sam-telegraph-sting/2390/4 "2016-09-27T07:00:08Z")
Love that BFS gets stung the same day our lads get zapped by the Paparrazzi leaving a nightclub in London trashed! > **[Southampton stars celebrate West Ham win with night out at London club](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-3807789/Southampton-stars-Charlie-Austin-Fraser-Forster-Jose-Fonte-Oriol-Romeu-celebrate-West-Ham-win-night-London-s-Libertine-club.html)** > > Charlie Austin, Fraser Forster, Jose Fonte and Oriol Romeu were pictured with ex-Saint Nathaniel Clyne, as well as Everton's Aaron Lennon, leaving the west London haunt after enjoying a night out. Oops ![Keeper Fraser Forster looks bleary eyed as he makes his way out of the west London haunt](https://discourse-sotonians-uploads.s3.dualstack.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/3X/e/a/ea661010124ad34adabe2c00a6f02474b843a276.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![PhilippineSaint](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/philippinesaint/32/3978_2.png) [@PhilippineSaint](https://www.sotonians.com/u/PhilippineSaint)\ **Post date:** [27 September 2016 07:04 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/big-fat-sam-telegraph-sting/2390/5 "2016-09-27T07:04:41Z")
Is that Glasgow Saint in the background? ---
**Author:** ![lifeintheslowlane](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/lifeintheslowlane/32/690_2.png) [@lifeintheslowlane](https://www.sotonians.com/u/lifeintheslowlane)\ **Post date:** [27 September 2016 07:40 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/big-fat-sam-telegraph-sting/2390/6 "2016-09-27T07:40:20Z")
TBF I think we should remember that Sam is innocent until proven **GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY!!!** ---
**Author:** ![Rallyboy](https://www.sotonians.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/0ea827/32.png) [@Rallyboy](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Rallyboy)\ **Post date:** [27 September 2016 07:43 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/big-fat-sam-telegraph-sting/2390/7 "2016-09-27T07:43:09Z")
Man walks up street and blinks as multiple flashes are fired in his face. It’s a PR disaster! 😲 Or is it just a subtle bit of product placement, endorsed by the Mail?.. Because who carries his clothes to a nightclub in a bag, and who describes it like this? - _Although Romeu had at least remembered to bring his kit with him, as he sported a black Under Armour holdall to accompany Austin_. Advertorial. ---
**Author:** ![Polski\_Filip](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/polski_filip/32/75318_2.png) [@Polski\_Filip](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Polski_Filip)\ **Post date:** [27 September 2016 07:53 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/big-fat-sam-telegraph-sting/2390/8 "2016-09-27T07:53:26Z")
Although on the link the pics of Chazza do look like he’s pissed himself ---
**Author:** ![Fatso](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/fatso/32/18_2.png) [@Fatso](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Fatso)\ **Post date:** [27 September 2016 07:58 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/big-fat-sam-telegraph-sting/2390/9 "2016-09-27T07:58:52Z")
big fat Sam will be cleared as he says in the sting that he needs to clear the £400,000 deal he agrees with the FA. This is his get out. Trying to vilify him for saying “Woy” instead of Roy is scraping the barrel. ---
**Author:** ![Sussexsaint](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/sussexsaint/32/74_2.png) [@Sussexsaint](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Sussexsaint)\ **Post date:** [27 September 2016 08:38 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/big-fat-sam-telegraph-sting/2390/10 "2016-09-27T08:38:34Z")
Looks like Charlies been working on his dribbling. Happens to us all as our prostates get bigger ![](https://discourse-sotonians-uploads.s3.dualstack.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/3X/1/9/1986d2447220485638695a102779f39227428c5e.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Rallyboy](https://www.sotonians.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/0ea827/32.png) [@Rallyboy](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Rallyboy)\ **Post date:** [27 September 2016 09:14 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/big-fat-sam-telegraph-sting/2390/11 "2016-09-27T09:14:11Z")
Back on topic, if the headlines are accurate, Sam is fucked. Put the Redknapp/Pardew dream team on standby… ---
**Author:** ![Cobham-Saint](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/cobham-saint/32/99252_2.png) [@Cobham-Saint](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Cobham-Saint)\ **Post date:** [27 September 2016 09:20 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/big-fat-sam-telegraph-sting/2390/12 "2016-09-27T09:20:59Z")
Burn him! Burn him! Burn him! ---
**Author:** ![BTripz](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/btripz/32/75839_2.png) [@BTripz](https://www.sotonians.com/u/BTripz)\ **Post date:** [27 September 2016 09:21 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/big-fat-sam-telegraph-sting/2390/13 "2016-09-27T09:21:18Z")
SteveInTheForest, this is a perfect example of a post the should be downvoted due to the sheer terror that it invokes!! ---
**Author:** ![BTripz](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/btripz/32/75839_2.png) [@BTripz](https://www.sotonians.com/u/BTripz)\ **Post date:** [27 September 2016 09:34 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/big-fat-sam-telegraph-sting/2390/14 "2016-09-27T09:34:37Z")
[If Sam Allardyce is in the dock then so too should be the FA chiefs who appointed him](http://www.joe.co.uk/sport/sam-allardyce-england/88618) ---
**Author:** ![Polski\_Filip](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/polski_filip/32/75318_2.png) [@Polski\_Filip](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Polski_Filip)\ **Post date:** [27 September 2016 09:38 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/big-fat-sam-telegraph-sting/2390/15 "2016-09-27T09:38:24Z")
He hasn’t signed anything so hasn’t broken any rules. Will be the reason he gets off. What he has done is expose the gravy train mentality around England. Hence Bringing the game into disrepute. Annoyingly I was covering this in tomorrows Ryder Cup blog, beaten by reality again Ho hum ---
**Author:** ![Map-Of-Tasmania](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/map-of-tasmania/32/1298_2.png) [@Map-Of-Tasmania](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Map-Of-Tasmania)\ **Post date:** [27 September 2016 09:56 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/big-fat-sam-telegraph-sting/2390/16 "2016-09-27T09:56:37Z")
Fat Sam claims his innocence - but was stitched up buy those ‘pesky kids’ in Bugsy ![](https://discourse-sotonians-uploads.s3.dualstack.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/3X/4/4/444e24e9427fe7a67a5b3741f15954aabc75cb78.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Sadoldgit](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/sadoldgit/32/44_2.png) [@Sadoldgit](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Sadoldgit)\ **Post date:** [27 September 2016 09:58 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/big-fat-sam-telegraph-sting/2390/17 "2016-09-27T09:58:11Z")
> Originally posted by @cobham-saint > > Agree with Phil, it’ll probably be swept under the carpet. > > Not knowing all the facts, I wonder how much he was lead on by the reporters to get a “story”? The gutter press are not always the paragons of virtue that they claim to be. > > Although this sting was carried out by The Telegraph, who you would have thought have a bit more about them than the red tops. ---
**Author:** ![Map-Of-Tasmania](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/map-of-tasmania/32/1298_2.png) [@Map-Of-Tasmania](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Map-Of-Tasmania)\ **Post date:** [27 September 2016 10:13 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/big-fat-sam-telegraph-sting/2390/18 "2016-09-27T10:13:41Z")
Part of an ongoing 10 month + investigation into corruptionin football apparently with much more to come. ---
**Author:** ![Sadoldgit](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/sadoldgit/32/44_2.png) [@Sadoldgit](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Sadoldgit)\ **Post date:** [27 September 2016 10:20 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/big-fat-sam-telegraph-sting/2390/19 "2016-09-27T10:20:11Z")
People like Fat Sam and Saggy Chops have been getting away with it for years and probably think that they are fire proof. I would love to see the corrupt ones taken down but I’m not holding my breath. ---
**Author:** ![Rallyboy](https://www.sotonians.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/0ea827/32.png) [@Rallyboy](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Rallyboy)\ **Post date:** [27 September 2016 10:55 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/big-fat-sam-telegraph-sting/2390/20 "2016-09-27T10:55:34Z")
It’s more like a thirty year investigation that has achieved little. Having already seen the future under Fat Sam it is a good opportunity to save ourselves another four years of abject failure and start afresh without having to pay the compensation… [Next page](https://www.sotonians.com/t/big-fat-sam-telegraph-sting/2390.md?page=2)