Football has never been cleaner - Coates

Stoke chairman Peter Coates says football "has never been cleaner" but would back an agents' fees limit in the wake of financial malpractice claims.

Sam Allardyce left as England manager after apparently offering advice on how to avoid third-party ownership rules.

Barnsley assistant boss Tommy Wright was sacked over claims he took cash for trying to engineer certain transfers.

"We can do things better but I don't accept the game is corrupt," Coates told BBC sports editor Dan Roan.

"The game has never been cleaner and I have been in this game a long time."

Coates - who first joined the Stoke board in 1985 and, apart from a seven-year absence after fan protests forced him to walk away in 1989, he…