England manager Sam Allardyce's past controversies

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Standard Sport27 September 2016

Standard Sport looks back at Sam Allardyce's past controversies after the England boss was filmed by the Telegraph appearing to advise undercover reporters posing as businessmen on how to sidestep transfer laws.

In 2006, Allardyce and his son Craig were implicated in a BBC Panorama documentary for taking “bungs”. They strongly denied the allegations and have never been charged with any offences.

In 2013, Allardyce received “substantial” but undisclosed damages from former Blackburn Rovers manager Steve Kean. In 2011, Kean had been recorded alleging that Allardyce had been sacked from his post at Rovers because he was “a crook”.

Later that year he found himself in the spotlight again as a victim of a tax fraud when he was named as an unwitting investor in a £250m tax scam involving a fake film company, which had been marketed as a legitimate tax avoidance scheme.

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Last month, Allardyce parted with betting firm My Club Betting, for whom he was a brand ambassador. The firm’s managing director, Neil Riches, had previously taken a similar company into liquidation, losing investors up to £4million, although Allardyce said he had known nothing about its history.

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