"?Sam Allardyce left his job as England manager this week under controversial circumstances - the result of an undercover media investigation into corruption in the game - but in one of the highest profile positions in world football, he's not the first England boss to leave under a cloud.
While the likes of Roy Hodgson, Steve McClaren and Kevin Keegan have paid the price for failure on the pitch since 2000, three of the 13 managers who took the job full-time before Allardyce have also left for reasons that weren't to do with their on-field results.
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Leeds legend Don Revie was appointed in 1974, but it is alleged that by 1977 he sensed dislike from FA chairman Sir Harold Thompson, while further problems arose after England finished third at the British Home Championships, after which he began looking for other options.
Revie later skipped a friendly in Brazil, which he claimed was because of a scouting mission on England's next opponents. He was, in fact, in Dubai for contract negotiations about taking over the UAE national side and soon asked the FA to cancel his England contract.
They refused but he told a national newspaper that he was going, leading to an FA charge for bringing the game into disrepute and a failed attempt to impose on him a 10-year ban from football.
22 years later, Glenn Hoddle was dismissed as England boss for an entirely different and more unsavoury controversy. It followed comments he gave in an interview about how he considered people with disabilities to be paying the price for bad 'karma' in a previous life.
"You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains," he told Times reporter Matt Dickinson.
"Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime. I have nothing to hide about that. It is not only people with disabilities. What you sow, you have to reap."
Fabio Capello chose to resign in protest in 2012 after the FA stripped John Terry of the England captaincy when the Chelsea defender was awaiting trial for alleged racial abuse of Anton Ferdinand.
The fiery Italian coach disagreed with the decision, stating his belief that Terry had been punished by FA chiefs before he had proven guilty by any court.
Feeling he no longer wished to continue, Capello left his role within a few days, leaving the FA to quickly find and appoint a new manager just four months before Euro 2012 was due to begin.
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