"At what dilution of cash to content can you no longer taste the sport in sport?" - Gary Imlach.
Is it lonely up there on your pedestal, Mr Scudamore?
The timing of media leaks always indicate the hidden agendas of the institutions behind the leaking process.
And yesterday's leak that the FA have found Portsmouth FC and football agent Willie McKay guilty of breaking the rules of the game with regard to two transfers of Benjani was certainly timed for minimum media impact.
The story had disappeared from the ether by this morning when the masses were logging on for the opening day of Premiership action.
There are seven primary types of corruption that are destroying the sport of football.
Yesterday, we provided an example of an owner, Thaksin Shinawatra, who should never have passed the fit-and-proper-persons test (FPPT).
Today, we look at a football manager and an agent who would each fall below the threshold if matters of integrity were taken into account when decisions were made regarding FPPT's for their respective roles in the demise of football.
In the next two posts, we cover examples of the institutions, the referees, the bookmakers and the players who are also involved in selling you short.
Willie McKay ("Murky Willie") and Harry Redknapp ("'Arry") have had their business practices questioned repeatedly by this blog since we first started in November 2006.
We are not going to go over old ground again here as we wish to focus specifically on yesterday's action rather than their historical shenanigans.
Suffice to say, though, that the FA's ruling is totally unrelated to the still ongoing City of London police inquiry into bungs, in which Murky Willie and 'Arry are two of the seven charged with alleged financial indiscretions, and then some...
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