Greed is not new in English football and Allardyce is only slightly more guilty than the rest.

The decision be the FA to relieve Sam Allardyce of his duties this week has split fans throughout the country. My personal stance is that he should still be England manager but I understand why he isn't. I am undoubtedly biased and am influenced by the great years he brought my own team. He was greedy, pig headed and egotistical but equally much of the personal stuff he said was what the press has been freely professing for years, be it Wembley or psychological barriers within the England dressing room. Pundits and the media sit and discuss for hours why anyone would want the England job criticising the pressure that it creates despite being the root of much of the problem. Constant over analysis of the role reads too far into everything and explains why the job is so hard. The often reliable Henry Winter argued that the position unnecessarily changed Allardyce despite failing to realise it is what he has always been. Advice on how to circumvent transfer rules is certainly seedy and a betrayal of trust in his employers and the entire situation is a PR disaster but calling out Allardyce as greedy in modern football is hypocritical for the most part. Allardyce had a huge income of £3m but given the opportunity to earn 400k for a couple of days work I'm sure anyone would do the same if they earned £10000 or £3m a year. Greed isn't good but unfortunately it's endemic in the modern world.

Whether or not you believe he should have taken the walk why is there this sudden realisation of the presence of and concern over money in the game after someone is caught chasing it? Football is a game which for the past 25 years has been rife with and controlled by money - much of it dodgy. Allardyce may have been in the wrong, and I understand why the FA let him go but to suddenly use this instance to say that there is too much money flowing around the game seems to be strange. >£1 billion was spent in the previous transfer window, agents push players onto their next club for a quick buck whilst clubs insist on charging >£50 a ticket for games despite £5 billion TV deals which should more than cover costs. Somebody grabbing at money in the beautiful game is nothing new. One can question whether leaving a club for pay rise from £80,000 a week to £120,000 a week is truly necessary but unfortunately it is now a part of the game. English football is not in crisis or "the laughing stock of world football" it is merely continuing in its day to day business as a money driven system which still has a rubbish national team. Nobody likes to see a dodgy underside to English football but the FA will recover, find a replacement and the press will return to calling for managers to be sacked 6 games into the season. I am not offering a solution to the issue of the money sloshing around English football neither agreeing with it or arguing it has gone too far but why is everybody out of nowhere is so surprised by it? Allardyce was greedy and it may be a sad symptom of our national game but if we fired everybody in modern football for chasing money then we would have nobody left.