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2nd coach dismissed in British daily sting
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A BRITISH newspaper investigation led to a second soccer coach getting fired in England yesterday.
Two days after Sam Allardyce lost his job as England manager following an undercover operation by the Daily Telegraph, second-tier club Barnsley fired assistant coach Tommy Wright.
Wright was filmed apparently accepting an envelope which the Telegraph said contained 5,000 pounds (US$6,500) from a fake Asian firm to help place players at the northern club. Video footage was released by the newspaper late on Wednesday and Wright was immediately suspended by Barnsley.
“After considering Mr Wright’s response to allegations in today’s Daily Telegraph about breaching (Football Association) rules over player transfers, Mr Wright was dismissed,” the club said after a meeting with the coach yesterday.
Barnsley said it was “unaware of such matters or involved in any wrongdoing”.
The English FA decided to terminate Allardyce’s contract on Tuesday after video showed him appearing to offer advice to fictitious businessmen on how to sidestep an outlawed player transfer practice and also negotiating a 400,000-pound public-speaking contract to top up an annual England salary of 3 million pounds.
English soccer is reeling after three days of accusations by the newspaper following its months-long investigation into alleged wrongdoing in the game.
Queens Park Rangers is investigating footage that appeared to show its coach, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, seeking a fee of 55,000 pounds to work for a fake Far Eastern firm that had suggested selling players to the second-tier London club.
Hasselbaink denied any wrongdoing, saying he was only offered a fee to make a speech in Singapore and did not ask QPR to sign players said to have been represented by the fake firm. QPR said it had “every confidence” in Hasselbaink but he would undergo a “thorough internal investigation”.
The Daily Telegraph also filmed an agent accusing 10 managers, which it did not name, of taking bribes linked to player transfers.
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