Probing the Bungs in England
By: Bob | September 19th, 2006
We’ve been reading a lot of headlines the past week about a BBC program that will expose the “bung” problem in English football. Because we were not raised on the Mother Island, our English language skills are sometimes deficient. Case in point, the term “bung”. To us, it is a schoolyard slang used to describe a part of the human anatomy where the sun don’t shine. For this reason, we’ve been naturally kind of reticent about becoming too concerned with bungs in English football.
Nevertheless, we are interested in seeing the revelations that will “rock football” on tonight’s program. No, they won’t have anything to do with managers’ bums, but rather bungs, which are kickbacks that are allegedly made to managers when transfer deals go through. According to Luton manager Mike Newell, bungs are everywhere in England.
Newell said: “I think it’s become a culture in football and it’s almost accepted and brushed under the carpet.”
The show allegedly reveals the names of managers and clubs most agreeable to accepting bungs and you can bet there are probably some nervous football folks in England right now feeling their own bungholes tightening up with the thought of being exposed.
Whether this will truly rock the football world remains to be seen. We’re kind of hoping it is all hype and no substance. Between the scandals in Italy and match-fixing probes seemingly everywhere else, we’re not sure we can stomach the site of another exposed bung.
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In the lead up to this show the likes of Harry Redknapp(Portsmouth) and Sam Allardyce(Bolton)have been saying they’ve nothing to hide.
Both have a similar profile, buying and selling lots of relatively unknown overseas players quickly.
By coincidence Allardyce’s son is an agent.George Graham was the biggest casulty of getting busted for bungs when he lost the Arsenal manager’s job in 1995.
Arsenal paid Bronby for midfielder John Jensen but the money went through agent Rune Hauge.Arsenal agreed a fee with Hauge that was a few hundred thousand more than Bronby were asking for the player.
The difference Hauge split with Graham.Posted from
United States
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