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When the S hits the F

Thank you Sam Allardyce.

Your greed, selfishness and belief you were untouchable has done your old team a right favour.

After a couple of days of West Ham having their pants pulled down and being slapped about all over the back pages like an MP in a Knightsbridge dungeon, our stunning loss of form is no longer the hot topic.

With Big Sam’s fondness for a pound note and his willingness to slag people off in the process of chasing it we can stop looking at the papers and football media through the gaps in our fingers.

It looks like this story will dominate football media for some time. The Daily Telegraph are teasing they have more names to drop from a great height and take a proverbial one on, so Slaven and the two David’s should be able to take a deep breath and not have to worry about fire fighting in the press and concentrate on making things better in the West Ham camp.

That of course is if The Telegraph doesn’t have any more bombshells to drop regarding Allardyce’s time at West Ham.

They are already touting an old story regarding Ravel Morrison. They allege Allardyce tried to force Morrison to sign up with his own agent, even saying the only way to a pay rise and new contract was to align with that agent.

When Morrison refused it is alleged he was then dropped from the team. When subsequently loaned to Cardiff City the paper alleges the club auditor discovered unexplained payments and that an agent claimed Allardyce received payment as part of this deal.

Unfortunately open season has been declared on ‘dirty football’ and a lot of muck is bound to be raked. The Telegraph have obviously put a lot of effort in to get this story and others and will milk it for all it’s worth. If they do indeed have more revelations they won’t drop them all at once but drip feed them in a bid to increase their circulation.

The other papers will have their noses put out of joint and will be trying their hardest to come up with their own scoop.

With an international break on the horizon expect the journalistic muck spreader to be working plenty of overtime.

There will be no winner in this, football will be a big time loser.

Don’t expect Big Sam’s sacking/resignation/please make it all go away by mutual consent to be the last over the coming weeks.

So let’s don our tin hats, duck in the corner and hope West Ham come out the other end unscathed.

COYI

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