I’m not making any insinuations directed at Belleeks but as a general point…
You’d have to be completely deluded not to think certain club managers aren’t taking “generous mileage allowances” these days.
Do people really think these fellas trek the length of the country to some obscure club they have no affinity to, in another county they’ve no affinity to, that are willing to sacrifice their evenings and weekends, to train a bunch of fellas they don’t know nor have ever met, simply for “the love of the game”?
Fair play to the clubs who have the resources/wealthy backers to throw money at outsiders and more power to them if they actually win something. Sometimes there are no takers within a club when it comes to appointing an outsider and I don’t begrudge any club that does. But for people to pretend it isn’t widespread or that it doesn’t happen at all is idiocy.
That’s not to say that there aren’t men out there who are taking clubs and ask for nothing more than expenses and associated costs with running a team but they are as just as common as the money men.
As for the money men themselves, I don’t begrudge them either, if they have found an extra source of income fair play to them.