Scudamore

[Ripley]

Great set of lads.

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

they'll all be working for FIFA before you know

[RP]

Ah come on now, he's apologised.

 

What more do you want?

[Stevie H]

sepp made a mistake with qatar, this is tiny potatoes. not even a mistake, just an irregularity, an unfortunate incident. don't apologise and move on. bigger issues, there's a world cup around the corner. the game we love is owned and administered by utter c*nts. anyone surprised?

[Ripley]

Marina Hyde skewered him last week

 

Full Scadamore article here

 

And so to the long-looming Having Said All That. Having said all that, what if Scudamore were to be judged according to his own standards? You see, even as he was brushing off the incident with his non-apology apology, a bell was ringing in my head. It was not three years ago that all Premier League funding was rescinded from the fan empowerment organisation Supporters Direct, on the basis of a few swearily abusive tweets sent by its chief executive minutes after AFC Wimbledon's promotion to the Football League. (Supporters Direct helps fans establish supporters' trusts, and in one of those corporate fig-leaf deals that sees McDonald's donate a minuscule percentage of its gazillions to the occasional public health project, it is overwhelmingly funded by the Premier League.)

 

"The Bible can f*** off," opined the euphoric SD chairman Dave Boyle, "this is the greatest story ever told." The MK Dons chairman was a "cowardly cheating idiot". The lawyer who sat on the FA commission that approved the Milton Keynes relocation was judged something apparently unprintable. And for those spur-of-the-moment, soon-deleted transgressions, the Premier League's crucial funding was withdrawn from Supporters Direct with immediate effect.

 

It didn't matter to Scudamore that Boyle offered a mortified apology. Almost unbelievably, it didn't matter that he then resigned in a desperate bid to safeguard the organisation to which he had given more than 10 years' service. Scuadmore's outfit still pulled every penny, via its satellite the Football Stadia Improvement Fund, leaving Supporters Direct's 10 dedicated staff petrified that they would soon have no jobs. This financial torture of the organisation lasted months.

 

So that is the sort of man who runs the Premier League – petulant, spiteful, imperious, devoid of a sense of proportion, and nakedly contemptuous of anyone trying to represent the ordinary fan. Call me a wildly unreconstructed misogynist – ideally in an article which studiously discounts everything I have written about sexism before – but those characteristics are considerably more troubling to me than whatever dreary badinage Scudamore exchanges in private with one of his dreary-sounding mates. And in a media misjudgment that would surely have delighted him, they got about a tenth of the coverage.

[RP]

Interesting to compare Scudamore's actions and subsequent treatment with that of the NBA and Donald Sterling.

[Ripley]

Interesting to compare Scudamore's actions and subsequent treatment with that of the NBA and Donald Sterling.

Difference between naked racism and, er, top bantz?

 

But, yes, obviously.

[RP]

Naked racism vs. deep-rooted sexism/misogyny dressed up as humour.

[Ripley]

No "further" action against Scudamore, it seems.

 

And the action against him to date has been?

[£440,000]

Naked racism vs. deep-rooted sexism/misogyny dressed up as humour.

 

Is that the name of the new Frankie Boyle live dvd?

 

No "further" action against Scudamore, it seems.

 

And the action against him to date has been?

 

Shocking and not at all surprising at the same time.

[Zoob]

It's ok though because the PA shouldn't have seen those mails, and so it's really all just her fault. Bloody women etc...

[downunder]

What he said was wrong, no doubt.

 

The big mistake IMO, was having private emails accessible on a work device. Of course any email he sends is then available to others, but to have these emails available to his PA is asking for trouble.

 

It's a shame now, that nothing is private though. Again not defending him, but in general, whatever we seem to say or do is open to others to read.

 

I am very wary what I put in any email, forum, regarding my local club, when talking about players, coaches or federation personnel (I am the President). My views on a subject can cause problems. I don't pick the team, but if I say, to another committee member, a player is not playing well or is not very good I should be allowed to without any consequences.

[Stevie H]

sigh.

 

"But the decision to take no further action was backed by the most senior women at Premier League clubs. Sunderland's chief executive, Margaret Byrne, said she was "delighted common sense has prevailed", while Karren Brady, West Ham's vice-chair, said she had known Scudamore for 20 years and he was "categorically not sexist"."

 

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/may/19/premier-league-clubs-firm-behind-richard-scudamore

[aka Dus]

Just read Atleti didn't get presented with their trophy on Saturday because the president of the Spanish FA was 'travelling'. And they won't get it until the Super Cup game either.

 

Scudamore has his priorities straight.

[RP]

Just read Atleti didn't get presented with their trophy on Saturday because the president of the Spanish FA was 'travelling'. And they won't get it until the Super Cup game either.

 

Scudamore has his priorities straight.

 

"@GuillemBalague: And we hardly ever lift the trophy on the last day of season. I think only happened twice. Our tradition is to do it first day of nxt season"

 

Don't know how accurate that is.

[Ripley]

It's ok though because the PA shouldn't have seen those mails, and so it's really all just her fault. Bloody women etc...

The "investigation" was so thorough that they didn't even interview the complainant, which might have helped.

 

Anyone hear Doug Ellis on R5 this morning? He said he hadn't seen the offending quotes, so Nicky Campbell read out the one about women's irrationality. "Well, women are irrational", said Deadly Doug.

[Stevie H]

The "investigation" was so thorough that they didn't even interview the complainant, which might have helped.

 

Anyone hear Doug Ellis on R5 this morning? He said he hadn't seen the offending quotes, so Nicky Campbell read out the one about women's irrationality. "Well, women are irrational", said Deadly Doug.

 

what the f*** are they doing interviewing that idiot about it? next up we ask the opinions of known feminists freddy shepherd and david sullivan.

[Des]

Karren Brady is a proper sh*thouse.

[Stevie H]

Karren Brady is a proper sh*thouse.

she probably says the same about gold and sullivan. categorically not sexist, just driven entrepreneurs.

[Ripley]

she probably says the same about gold and sullivan. categorically not sexist, just driven entrepreneurs.

She's obviously thick if she can say Scudamore is "categorically not sexist" when the evidence now public is that he categorically is.

[Hassony]

some of the comments on a group on facebook about this

 

 

• Will Brookes And I bet she didn't ask for a penny from the paper for her interview/story...18 May at 14:54 · "}"
• Will Brookes Having said that he's still an idiot for saying those things on official emails. Keep your personal life personal if those are your views but don't take them to work with you...18 May at 14:55 ·
• Mark Smith She's lucky she didn't get spit roasted by john terry and David pleat at the work Christmas party.18 May at 15:21 · "}"
• Jonathan France She's the new voice for women around the world.I await her appearance in an internet meme where she has a forced sad look on her face whilst holding a piece of paper which reads, #Bringbackourgirls18 May at 15:23 ·

Edited May 20, 2014 by Hassony

[Maldini]

"@GuillemBalague: And we hardly ever lift the trophy on the last day of season. I think only happened twice. Our tradition is to do it first day of nxt season"

 

Don't know how accurate that is.

 

It's true yeah, I remember when Barca won it a few years ago they lifted it at the end of the game and the commentators said it was a break from tradition.

[aka Dus]

So Sid Lowe's comment about him not being there was just more standard Guardian whinery? Fair enough so.

[muleskinner]

Tony Barrett ‏@TonyBarretTimes 14m Peter McCormick, who advised Dyke on how the PL handled the Scudamore affair, is the same one who represented Suarez v the FA. Random fact.

 

 

 

 

Tony Barrett ‏@TonyBarretTimes 9m

 

The FA Commission report described Suarez's evidence as "unreliable" which McCormick claimed was down to "bad drafting." Random fact 2.

 

 

[Tosh]

This one is not going away for a while