Considering that they weren't going to hire a foreigner (by all accounts), is there an inspiring choice?Uninspiring choice.
pleaseletitbePulispleaseletitbePulispleaseletitbePulisApparently there are a bunch of other shoes to fall, with the Telegraph stringing it out over time to keep selling more newspapers and getting clicks, including misdeeds by a few other well-known managers that Big Fat Sam blabbed about. It seems possible that Pearson is one of the guys and Derby has suspended him preemptively, having got wind of the story already.
Well, yes and no. While I understand Teddy's statement that Sam didn't say anything that folks didn't know about, it is a pretty significant part of British culture for leadership to toe the party line. Having the England manager taking this meeting at all is bad optically, but then having him say that the rules can be gotten around is really a death knell. The first text I got on this from friends in the UK were pretty quick to the final judgement. Within about 3 minutes of the news breaking all had agreed that Sam wouldn't last another week.Unless there is something considerably worse coming this seems a classic case of embarrassing your boss by telling well known truths.