LONDON -- Panorama promised to "rock the foundations of football" but in the end we were neither shaken nor stirred by a program in which the so-called whistle-blowers proved to be the unscrupulous characters rather than the bung-taking managers they were supposedly "exposing."
Bolton's Sam Allardyce may be guilty by association in the eyes of some after allegations from agents that he took illegal payments for transfers -- denied by Allardyce -- but as ever, it was all innuendo and proving any wrong-doing is likely to be more difficult than Manchester City winning an away game.