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Allardyce saga shows FA's ineptitude

After a nine and a half week romance, the Football Association woke up feeling kinda dirty.

Bribes (quaintly called "bungs" in the lexicon of English football).

Players gambling on football.

Third-party ownership rules being circumvented.

Two-hundred thousand bucks (plus first class tickets and hotel) to fly the England manager to Asia, give a "keyonte speech" and have him hang out at the bar for a few hours.

The Daily Telegraph's undercover sting of Sam Allardyce leaves the English FA (or simply "The Football Association" as they like to call themselves) once again searching for a new manager and the masses tut-tutting at Big Sam.