England's Football Manager Steps Down Over Undercover Sting.
NEWTON: The manager of the England football team has stepped down after an undercover sting by "The Telegraph" newspaper. Now it recorded Sam Allardyce allegedly saying he knew how to circumvent the football association's rules on player ownership. In "The Telegraph" video, he criticizes his predecessor, Roy Hodgson and his relationship with the players saying he'd sent them all to sleep. It also reports that he said the former assistant manager, Gary Neville, should sit down and shut up, and it is alleged that Allardyce also criticized the FAA saying they stupidly spent more than a billion dollars on that new stadium at Wembley. CNN world sports Don Riddell joins me now, I mean for all of those long suffering English footy fans, put this into context for us, Don.</s>DON RIDDELL, CNN ANCHOR: This is just remarkable in so many ways. Paula. The England manager's position is something of poisoned chalice really, it is an impossible job. It is seen in England as the second most important job in the country, behind that only to the prime minister of the country. Sam Allardyce has found himself in a position where he put his employer in a very, very difficult position, and they clearly felt as though they had no choice but to let him go after just 67 days. One game in charge, which really is quite remarkable. You ran through his list of his indiscretions which was revealed by "The Daily Telegraph" in their sting operation against him. But it is the third party ownership thing which really forced their hand. This is something that is very controversial in football. Michel Platini once described it as slavery in the modern day game. And the football association outlawed it eight years ago. FIFA abandoned it last year, and here you have the man in the most important position in the England football team basically saying, you know, don't worry about it. We can find our way around it. That is incredibly damaging for the reputation of the football association and that is why he is gone after just one game.</s>NEWTON: Incredible. And thanks so much for putting it in context for us. We will hear about this in the coming week I think, and I think I speak for many footy fans when they found out we cannot repeat what the fans said about the whole incident. Tom Riddell, thank you. And that is QUEST MEANS BUSINESS. I'm Paula Newton and the news continues right here on CNN. END