STUART McCall does not feel corruption is rife within football – and stressed he had never been offered a "bung".

The game's name has been dragged through the mud with national newspaper allegations that led to Sam Allardyce's exit as England manager after just one game.

Former City winger Tommy Wright was also fired as Barnsley assistant manager yesterday after allegations he had accepted £5,000 from undercover reporters to help place players at the Championship club.

More names are likely to follow and McCall admitted the headlines have damaged the image of the sport.

But the Bantams boss said: "I can say hand-on-heart that I've never, ever been offered any money to do anything.

"Obviously when you're out of the game you get money to go and do talks – but that is different.

"Have I been offered anything as a manager? One million per cent not."

Leeds owner Massimo Cellino has also been caught up in the investigation, as well as QPR's Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink. But it is the high-profile departure of Allardyce that has brought the spotlight on the game's morals.

McCall said: "Any publicity like this is negative towards football in general.

"It's hard to make a judgement until you know the full facts and I've not looked into a lot of it, to be honest.

"But I'm sure Sam will regret it until his dying day because (the England job) was something he wanted to do. He knows he has been completely and totally naive.

"I'm sure he will be embarrassed about lots of things about it, like what he said talking about the ex-manager.

"I felt for him there because what you think you're saying in private, you don't think it will go elsewhere.

"But as for the other thing, he will know he has been naive and should have known better."

Wright had been immediately suspended by Barnsley "pending an internal investigation" when the allegations against him first emerged on Wednesday night.

But it was announced by lunchtime yesterday that he had been dismissed from his post following a meeting with Barnsley chief executive Linton Brown.

A statement read: "After considering Mr Wright's response to allegations … about breaching FA rules over player transfers, Mr Wright was dismissed."

Wright played for City for two years and came off the bench in the club's first-ever Wembley appearance when Chris Kamara's side won the Second Division play-off final in 1996.