Allardyce awaits Panorama fall-out

12 April 2012

Bolton manager Sam Allardyce will wait until the BBC's Panorama investigation into football bungs is screened on Tuesday night before reacting to any possible allegations.

Allardyce and his agent son Craig are understood to have been among those investigated by the programme, and the Trotters boss admitted his family are "concerned" by the possible content.

He said: "We are concerned but at the moment, because I am linked with it. From a legal point of view I cannot say any more than that. I will take a view after the programme has come out because I do not know what is in it."

The full allegations to be made in the programme, to be shown on BBC1 at 9pm, are still unknown - indeed BBC lawyers are still looking at the footage.

What is definite is that Luton manager Mike Newell will name the agents he claims offered him a bung.

The Panorama investigation, called 'Undercover: Football's Dirty Secrets', is also set to make damaging allegations about at least one Premiership manager.

The programme will also show football agent Charles Collymore being secretly filmed telling investigators that "six to eight managers" who would be "definitely up for a bung" and he goes on to name managers and clubs - though it is not definite as to whether Panorama will publicise those names.

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