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Yep. And yet still you had Everton fans paying for a plane with a "Time to go Roberto" banner flying over the ground, and groups of fans staging sit-in protests after games, demanding he be sacked. Everton fans are pathetic. I hope they reap what they sow next season - they deserve it.

I hear what you are saying, but there is such a sense of entitlement with some fans. "We want to finish in the top 6 and we want it with lots of free-flowing exciting entertaining football". They probably want the Moon on a stick as well. Then when their team "entertains" its way down to...

We were discussing whether what he'd done was worthy of being a sackable offence. I reckon no, you reckon yes, then you said he was "barely sacked", which I disagreed with. Anyway, I'm officially bored of the whole subject now, as I'm sure everyone else is. Agree to disagree. Move on.

I don't overly rate what Silva has done so far in this country, so I think he's still a bit of a punt (I said punt). Fonseca has had 4 clubs in 4 years, 3 of them in Portugal (one of which binned him off) and he's just won the League with Shakhtar - but then they're basically the Celtic of...

Do you remember the football under Hughton when he arrived that January and kept us up ? It was so turgid that we actually had SOME posters on here wanting him binned off that summer. Look how that turned out. Allardyce inherited a disjointed, dispirited squad of bang-average players at...

Look, we could go round in circles like this all day (well, we pretty much have). But the point is, you said he was "barely sacked". He absolutely WAS sacked by the FA, but with a mutually agreed payoff. It can, and often does happen.

In which case, he'd not have been paid a bean. The term "mutual consent" doesn't mean they haven't sacked him. The FA decided, in their wisdom, that they no longer wanted Allardyce as England manager. He didn't walk, he was pushed - while they stuffed some readies into his back pocket in a 'say...

The payoff is neither here nor there. He Was SACKED FFS, what a pointless debate.

Allardyce wanted that job desperately, it was a lifetime ambition of his so he would not have given it up lightly. He apologised, but it was not enough for them to let him keep his job. I'd say the reason for the payoff was so that he went quietly without kicking up a fuss, because the basis of...

And right on cue. :facepalm:

http://www.thefa.com/news/2016/sep/27/fa-statement-sam-allardyce-27-09-16 "Allardyce's conduct, as reported today, was inappropriate of the England manager. He accepts he made a significant error of judgement and has apologised. However, due to the serious nature of his actions, The FA and...

Once again, you're dolloping a shedload of suppositions on what Sam would and wouldn't have done had he accepted that speaking role they were offering (which he didn't). From where I'm sitting, you don't get sacked - and yes, he WAS sacked, along with a payoff - on the basis of what you think he...

You're ignoring the fact that he didn't commit to anything at all, because he said he would "have to check with his employers first". I'm no cheerleader for BFS, I wouldn't be overly thrilled to see him rock up at BHA if we were ever in the market. But you need to take a step back from all the...

As regards the ways round 3rd party ownership, its pure supposition to say he'd help them find ways round it if needed. He never offered that, he just said there are ways round it, which anyone involved in the game would know. To sack him on that basis was flimsy in the extreme. Had he of been...

Well there's no evidence of that. He was drawn into a meeting about a business proposition, and apparently did it as more as a favour for a friend of his. A couple of pints of wine later and boom, he's on the front pages, and soon after that he's back on the dole. I'd have liked to have seen...

The far east "businessmen" he met in that sting they set up offered him a job as a keynote speaker at events. He said he would have to check with his employers before he could consider it. I don't see much wrong with that. He also acknowledged that getting round the rules concerning 3rd party...

Well, quite. His stock seems to be unusually high for someone who has achieved so little.

Making way for the (totally overrated) Marco Silva then.