So.
Where is he hiding this morning?
And, more to the point, when will be tendering his resignation speech?
No, we are not talking about Gordon Brown, the man who created the financial template for the British Depression, but Richard Scudamore, the man who is in the process of destructing the game of football.
Scudamore has to go.
His position is untenable.
Presumably, this explains his silence.
There's not even one of those carefully crafted Premier League 'statements' explaining his/their view on one of his evolving Hyperrealities.
Why has the architect of a sport's demise gone to ground?
Listen up.
We've been banging on about Scudamore and his inappropriate ties (and I don't mean cravats) since time immemorial.
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Scudamore has a problem with strategy.
Short-term agendas are no problem. His autocratic power at the Premier League (PL) allows him to override any objections that might surface regarding his stewardship of the sport.
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The achievement of short-term 'goals' without a longer term strategy creates feedback loops and complex cause-and-effect linkages that move future Hyperrealities into different equilibrium states than the ones that are intended.
And, so it is with Mr Scudamore.
ScudamoreWorld's time as the theme park that defines postmodern English football is over.
There will be the tactics and the delays and the shouldering and parceling of blame, but, in years to come, Mr Scudamore will look back on Black Monday as the day that it all started to unravel big style.
For nearly two years, we have been informing readers that the real owner of Portsmouth FC is Arkadi Gaydamak and that, consequently, under the fit-and-proper-persons test (FPPT), Scudamore and the PL should take action against someone who, quite obviously, is not a fit-and-proper-person.
There were constant denials by both Portsmouth and the PL about this Reality, the repetitive statements being that Alexandre, Arkadi's son, was in control.
And now, the truth has outed.
Israeli newspaper, Yedioth Aharonot, has listed a 'personal declaration' of Arkadi's assets, as he is looking to sell some of them - we reported earlier in the year that Portsmouth were 'unofficially up for sale'. Among the many assets including a couple of yachts, a couple of executive aircraft, the usual sort of stuff, until you come to the section marked 'Soccer Abroad' where it indicates that the Real owner of Portsmouth FC is none other than one Arkadi Gaydamak.
In Israel, Arkadi is developing a political career for himself.
The self-styled "biggest man in Israel" has founded a far-right party and is running in the Jerusalem mayoral elections.
He also owns Beitar Jerusalem, the equally far-right club who have won the Israeli league in the last two seasons.
Fair enough, it is reasonable that some people should not evolve politically.
But there are bigger issues with Arkadi Gaydamak.
Much bigger.
Like the French arrest warrant relating to illegal arms dealing during the war in Angola.
Or the money laundering charges.
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A Portsmouth spokesman this week stated that Arkadi had nothing to do with the club. "Alexandre Gaydamak is the 100% owner of the club and his father has never had any dealings with it," he said.
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When the Premier League investigate this matter, it will be a test to see whether the FPPT is ever likely to be implemented by Scudamore against any of the scourge of inappropriate owners who he so likes to cosy up to.
The fact that this news story broke the day that we blogged about Portsmouth 'selling' their match at Manchester City, while all of your attentions were at Stamford Bridge, is entertaining timing.
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So, if, on a television programme, bungs are revealed to be a transfer tactic of a certain person at a certain club = no problem.
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So, if a certain club is run by a money laundering illegal arms dealer = no problem.
This is ScudamoreWorld, after all.
But, for how long?
For Black Monday brought further bad news for the Slimey One.
Scudamore contorted himself in numerous knots over his determined misreading and misapplication of the rules over the Carlos Tevez affair.
Once again, we pointed out forcibly at the time that the manner in which the saga played out completely undermined the various stances taken by Scudamore during the Hyperreality.
The rationality and logistics of his, and therefore the PL's, posturing on the affair were conspicuous by their absence. Scudamore simply said what he had to say in a reactive manner as events spun out of his control.
Throughout, Kia Joorabchian has effectively had our Great Leader by the short-n-curly's. He knew that Scudamore's position was untenable, he has the documents to prove it, and Black Monday saw the thankful beginning of the end of this protracted nonsense.
An independent tribunal, chaired by Lord Griffiths, has found in favour of Sheffield United over the Carlos Tevez affair, and clearly have reached the conclusion that Tevez was illegally registered while helping West Ham avoid relegation.
The tribunal states: "We have no doubt that West Ham would have secured at least three fewer points over the 2006-07 season if Carlos Tevez had not been playing for the club."
Sheffield United are now in a position to claim up to £30 million in damages from West Ham United.
And, what nobody in the mainstream media has yet picked up on, this will fall back on Scudamore.
It was Scudamore's mis-management and chameleon-like behaviour that created this cesspit, and West Ham will undoubtedly have a claim against Scudamore and the PL should the Sheffield United claim prove successful.
We told readers over the summer that West Ham's financial plight was serious and that players were to be sold. The Icelandic banking system is among the most rotten in the credit crunch, and the funds to pay any fine are only feasible via the selling of assets.
Curbishley did well to walk away.
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And, all this occurs against a backdrop of further irregularities at Newcastle, where we are now informed that a Nigerian consortium are interested in buying the club.
As Mike Ashley is a liar, we think that this story is not true.
In fact, a little detective work shows it not to be true, for the price that the Nigerians are allegedly willing to pay is £100 million GREATER than Ashley is asking.
The lying liar's press release does not correlate with the instructions issued to Keith Harris, the man faced with finding a buyer for the Dysfunctional DisUnited.
Expect more rubbish in, rubbish out from the man who is able to down a pint in one, and, who is able to spend an evening drinking cocktails with Dennis Wise while his club falls to bits around him.
Now, these potential addictive issues might explain some of the man's lack of business acumen, perhaps...
There has been an interesting impact of the fall-out over the Shinawatra/FPPT scenario.
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It doesn't matter what the complexities of Arkadi Gaydamak's ownership of Portsmouth are, he is most definitely the owner.
Have you checked out his son?
He couldn't organise a piss up in a shmaltz house.
And, while the FPPT is being given teeth, the PL might also introduce rules so that, in future, the role of chief executive does not fall into the grubby hands of murky operators like Scudamore.
Its time to go.
Do one, Scudamore...
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