Oh, what a terrible bung scandal!

Tapping up, bungs, evil Chelsea, Evil Sam, Evil Harry. The BBC Panorama team created an elaborate sting which lasted a year to try to show how much of a problem the bung system is in Premiership football. I have to say, personally, I'm stunned by the revelations. I just can't believe football is that clean!

Everyone knows the problems are wide-spread. It is just the way business is conducted in football. All clubs do it, and if they really disliked it, they'd all put an end to it together.

As far as Panorama goes, what a joke. Based around Big Sam Allardyce at Bolton, and his agent son, they tried to show various bits of undercover footage of people taking backhanders to sign players. Harry Redknapp was also stung, as was Frank Arnesen at Chelsea. Or so they would like you to believe.

They made a big deal out of this part. "One of the World's biggest clubs making an illegal approach for a player on camera". Hmmm yeah. Ok then. So, the player in question was a Midlesbrough youth teamer. 15 years old, not 17, so not under a professional contract, and therefore, not "approached" while contracted professionally to another club, without the club knowing.

Secondly, his agent came to the club, offering the player. Thirdly, The "offer" of 150k over three years was what they would pay the player, NOT what they would bung the player. Completely standard negotiations. They then went to Liverpool with the same player offer!

So this will take about 15 seconds of a lawyer's time to deal with.

Ultimately, after a year undercover, this programme was incredibly weak. Nothing solid came out of it, and amazingly, football really is in good shape if the extent of their problems are two or three unknown reserves at Bolton.

The true scandal here is that the pathetic BBC is still stealing licence payers' money and throwing it into ridiculous "documentaries" like this.