6. Sam Allardyce
On 19 September 2006 the BBC current affairs television programme Panorama broadcasted a special investigation into corruption in English football. Sam Allardyce, a well-known wheeler-dealer and his agent son Craig were alleged to have accepted "bungs" (bribes) from agents for signing certain players. Two agents, Teni Yerima and Peter Harrison, were secretly filmed, each separately claiming that they had paid Allardyce through his son. Allardyce denies ever taking, or asking for, a "bung" he then Bolton manager was implicated in an expose of the football transfer market. ,As a result of the allegation, made on the back of the programme, called Undercover: Football's Dirty Secrets, Allardyce refused to speak to the BBC. While he also stated he was going to sue the broadcaster in order to clear his name, Allardyce failed to issue libel proceedings, allowing the year-long window following the show's broadcast to expire.