“To be the England manager you must win every game, not do anything in your private life and hopefully not earn too much money”.
At least Sam Allardyce achieved the first of former England manager Sven Goran Eriksson’s retrospective requirements for the job.
Allardyce stepped down on Tuesday after just one game as the national team manager — a win in Slovakia — in the wake of an undercover newspaper investiagation that revealed his conversations with fake Asian businessmen in which he offered advise for circumventing playing transfer rules in exchange for a fee. But the fallout from his 67 days in charge of the Three Lions will stay with him for the rest of his life and has sorely damaged his reputation.