Experts dissect the Sam Allardyce conundrum

England manager, Sam Allardyce, woke up to the news that he will be investigated by The FA after he was secretly recorded discussing how to “get around” the third-party ownership

The undercover Telegraph reporters posed as investors from a fake Far East company and met with the former West Ham and Bolton boss, after his appointment, to discuss the ways around buying the economic rights to players, which was banned by The FA in 2008, and by FIFA last year.

The report, which also claims to have unearthed widespread corruption in British football (hooray!), is the culmination of a 10-month investigation by the national paper.

The experts on Twitter, whilst acknowledging that the 61-year-old is in big trouble, have taken a step back and are in no way pointing towards the sack, yet…

https://twitter.com/skysports_bryan/status/780547420996370432

Talked to a few FA people tonight. Allardyce is in for a painful inquisition starting properly tomorrow. Touch and go whether he survives.

— Henry Winter (@henrywinter) September 26, 2016

Guardian reporter, David Conn, went some way to defend Allardyce, stating that the video doesn’t exactly give away much…

Not sure Allardyce is quite advising bogus "investors" to do 3rd party ownership. Tells them it's banned & they'll make more £ being agents.

— David Conn (@david_conn) September 27, 2016

Whilst the experts where there to dissect the situation, being Twitter, many were on hand to point and laugh…

https://twitter.com/Onefootball/status/780671396141731840

https://twitter.com/BigSportGB/status/780656097229205504

https://twitter.com/CFCJD/status/780521478315995136

Former Soccer AM presenter, Max Rushden, suggested a change of career for the England boss…

Big Sam's Big Bake Off @Channel4?

— Max Rushden 💛🖤 (@maxrushden) September 27, 2016

Whilst one fan pointed to a possible replacement…

https://twitter.com/BetBright/status/780521077655085056