Do you really think that is necessary in this case?

It stinks and even you know it.

This is one of the oldest tricks in the employment book.

Yeah, I think its necessary in every case, to be sure. It stinks definitely. But then so did the initial allegations against Savile; I was very ready to say, it was 'ambulance chasing'.

I guess you have to have faith to some degree that the assorted court systems, appeals and legal bodies can resolve this, and establish what happened.

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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In 2014 the club was made aware of the FA’s investigation into allegations surrounding Mark Sampson. Bristol Academy Women cooperated fully with that investigation, which found that Mark Sampson did not pose a safeguarding risk working in the game. The club has had no further contact from the FA on this subject in the intervening years.
– BRISTOL ACADEMY STATEMENT

So effectively 3 investigations - nothing proven. Doesn't mean innocence, but surely something else is going on here.

“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you’re lucky."

Well I'd say that they have dug up something that was dealt with three years ago as an excuse to sack him now.Did he lose his job back then? He will win a tribunal case I'm fairly certain but that that is hardly the point.

IMO, this is about the fear put into institutions by a few accusations of 'racism' even when there is no evidence of it, and more importantly the fear that it might damage the careers of their leadership and the potential for making money.

The slippery slope just got a little more slippery.

I know of someone who played the race card in grass roots sport that might've got this person to a very high level. Trouble was the evidence, and there was factual evidence, was clear this person wasn't as good as others. Case lost.

COYP

Listening to the FA Chief Exec on the Bristol situation, sounds more like it could have been a relationship between coach and player. Still, the FA investigated it then and still hired him for England, then 3 years later say 'oh we've only just read that report, looks like we made an error' just as other unproven allegations are being made . . .

And in this crazy, f*cked up PC world we live in, the ebola comment he made to Eni Aluko isn't racist, but can be made to sound that way to fit an agenda. He's had his contract paid up, but I hope he has grounds to sue as reputationally he's been shafted, despite the various comments that 'he's fine to work in football, just not for England!'

On a CPFC note - another ex-England manager paid off. How long before he's seen in Sainsburys car park??

“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you’re lucky."