The Remaster: England’s Dreaming: A Post-Allardyce Fallout Warning

This morning's article from the 200% archive is relatively untouched. It's the fallout from 67 days of Allardyce.

There is a point at the heart of the conversation concerning the now confirmed departure of Sam Allardyce from the position of England manager after just sixty-seven days that is worthy of consideration: nobody really cares. Sure enough, football loves nothing more than a good argument. If I may push my Saint button and pull my Greavsie lever for a moment, it is a game of opinions. There will be debates about the continuing over-involvement of agents in modern professional football, about whether a manager should be sacked for injudicious comments or for discussing the circumvention of FA rules, about whether this one transgression in itself should have been enough to do for a settling in manager of the national team with few obvious replacements.