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27th Sep 2016

The funniest – and cruellest – tweets about *those* Big Sam allegations

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Richard Beech

Last night wasn’t a good night for Big Sam.

The Telegraph performed a sting operation on the England manager, in which he was filmed talking about potential ways to circumnavigate FA rules surrounding third party ownership of players.

Big Sam covered his back by constantly saying “I’ll have to check with the FA” when talking about the subject, but when you’re caught talking in this manner about rules put in place by your own employer, you could be in trouble.

Twitter has, predictably, reacted with glee and mirth, and with very, very little sympathy towards the England boss.

Here’s some of the best reaction from Twitter.

The Telegraph broke the story with their investigation…

And people were quick to get the gags in…

The question was soon raised: Can Big Sam keep his job?

If he is to be sacked, he’ll leave with an unprecedented record…

He should probably celebrate that…

Some people weren’t surprised by the allegations…

Perhaps after sleeping on it, it’d all have blown over? Nope…

https://twitter.com/TeamFA/status/780685542778343424

Definitely not…

Here were plenty of gags using one image in particular…

https://twitter.com/2NarMe/status/780525950484287490

https://twitter.com/kidd_kong78/status/780523285285068800

https://twitter.com/gillesoffthenet/status/780518211846627328

Allardyce probably isn’t feeling great this morning, this was his dream job…

His fax machines are probably working overtime…

At the time of writing. The FA have requested a full transcript of the footage from the Telegraph, and it remains unclear whether Allardyce can keep his job…

https://twitter.com/AccaTrackerTM/status/780695113106325504

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