It may come as a surprise to regular readers to hear that we think that there are, in effect, more repugnant individuals on the planet than Richard Scudamore.
Jörg Haider, who thankfully died in a car crash yesterday, would be one such character, with his folksy nazi sympathies and his support of the "proper labour policies" of the 3rd Reich in their "penal camps".
War criminals, arms dealers, the hunger merchants of the next millennium, the bosses of big pharma, speculative financial capitalists, people traffickers and deep state mafiosi, we would place Scudamore slightly below these levels of psychopathy too.
For Scudamore is only responsible for killing a sport, rather than vast swathes of the human population.
In every other mode of address, Scudamore is equivalent.
Before we deconstruct this odious pile of murkiness, we should make one very clear statement.
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We are not able to expand on these themes in this place, but we are able to demolish ScudamoreWorld holistically, if not specifically.
The various crises underpinning the English game all have Scudamore's fingerprints all over them - ###############################################, West Ham/Carlos Tevez affair, Shinawatra, Gaydamak Snr and Jnr, Hicks and Gillett, Abramovich, the Newcastle nonsense, ##############################################################
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As Reality has spun out of control over the last fortnight, Scudamore was happy to lay low, issuing 'anonymous' statements to the peripheral press on occasion.
Then, Integrity raised her head in the shape of Andy Burnham and Lord Triesman, respectively Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport and chairperson of the FA.
Scudamore spat his filthy abuse at the former, but the latter is an altogether different proposition.
Lord Triesman publicised that a sport labouring under debts of £3 billion is not a sustainable sector, particularly in the global Crash and Depression that we are entering.
And he is absolutely correct.
Take Newcastle, I bet Mike Ashley wishes someone would. In February, Mike Ashley's Sports Direct Minimum Wage Entity was worth an estimated £1.7 billion in the City of London.
Now, his sweatshop-based fortune has declined to just £168 million.
His excessive drinking is only partly responsible for this depreciation in assets.
Systemic adjustments in the global financial markets are a tsunami that impact upon all sectors and Ashley's cash is going to continue ebbing away as the Crash develops.
In parallel, it is not feasible for Newcastle to be sold, Keith Harris of Seymour Pierce, Cashley's dealmakers, has made this quite clear.
There are no potential buyers.
West Ham is even more perilous as we posted the other day.
We would put a ##% probability on West Ham going into liquidation in the next six months.
And, if the gyrations of the Russian stockmarket, the massive business losses and his legal travails were to result in Abramovich departing for pastures new, Chelsea have 18 months to find £700 million.
So, the indebtedness of the game, contrary to the propaganda and lies of Richard Scudamore, is not sustainable.
Scudamore, being a ################## free marketeer, sees nothing wrong with risk and debt. If one is able to purchase power at the expense of others, then that's good enough for old Dickie-boy.
So, Manchester United and Chelsea had combined debts of £1.5 billion as they fought out the Uncreditworthy Champions League Final of last year.
Typical psychopathy - short term gains; longer term chaos.
Scudamore is naive in his pathetic assessment of the current crisis. He is evidently unable to undertake even the most rudimentary joined up thinking.
As the Depression deepens, there will be a trickle down effect.
Now, free market ideologues love to quote the trickle down effect when it is hardly relevant ie in an economic boom when income inequality increases, but they stay mute when faced with the cascading impacts of a Depression.
Check it.
The financial system seizes up; credit crunch; recession; global market crash; Depression; companies close; jobs lost; houses repossessed; hyperinflation.
These feedback loops are hardly rocket science.
How many people are going to be able to afford the luxury of watching heavily corrupted and, consequently, unsatisfying live football matches on Sky and Setanta, at £50 per month in a Depression?
What about £100 to take a family of three to Eastlands to watch Abu Dhabi United?
Replica kits? Only off the back of a lorry, mate...
The Depression is Real, Scudamore is Hyperreal.
We have to be grateful to Triesman for moving this confrontation up a level.
Scudamore is rattled and, as usual, in a crisis he resorts to the threat of corporate thuggery.
Lord Triesman "answers to" a board, said Scudamore, before implying that the Premier League (PL) members of that board would be encouraging the noble Lord to toe a tighter line.
Scudamore follows on by stating that he prefers to have all of his discussions behind "closed doors".
This is the prime problem.
Whereas Triesman is answerable to a board, Scudamore is autocratic and omnipotent at the PL. Triesman prefers a public hearing of the state of the game, Scudamore has a propensity for shady deals #############################################
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This bullying, elitist, aloof ############## was clearly demonstrated by the manner in which Scudamore introduced the 39th Step.
Scudamore says he "would have been out on my arse" if he had not discussed his scheme with member clubs before holding talks outside his organisation.
But, Mr Scudamore did not discuss his proposals with FIFA, UEFA or the national associations of the territories where his imperial vision was to take him.
Indeed, Scudamore did not inform the FA until TWO HOURS before his proposals were internally leaked.
The repulsive one continued: "I have had 11 years of preferring to do my business quietly behind closed doors. I would much rather do that but I am a realist and I accept that what we do is of media and public interest."
OMG, just reread that.
Poor Mr Scudamore simply has to accept that there is a public interest in what is going on. His preference would be ################# omnipotence but at least he recognises that he has occasionally to demonstrate an awareness of normal people.
As opposed to psychopathic ones...
The people that Mr Scudamore is accountable to should have no role in the sport of football.
Nor in wider social society.
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There are many criminals and idiots involved in the English game, and Scudamore is not the only ludicrous voice responding to Lord Triesman's suggestions.
Step forward Richard Bevan, chief executive of the League Managers Association: "... you don’t go into the public domain and start talking about debt when we have had the biggest crash around the world since 1929."
Why not exactly?
As the excellent Patrick Barclay says in the Telegraph: "Quite right; you just pretend it’s not happening. Like when your house is ablaze; the last thing you do is dial 999 and have the fire brigade hosing water all over it."
Barclay also refers to the "delusional consensus" put forward by the likes of Scudamore and Bevan, while he describes the PL as "specialising in the issues of third-party ownership and transparency highlighted by the case of Carlos Tevez and West Ham."
It is interesting to compare and contrast the two sides that are forming to battle over the future of English football.
In the blue corner, we have Lord Triesman, Andy Burnham, Gordon Brown, the Telegraph journalists, UEFA, key members of the European parliament and the football supporters (the Football Supporters Federation are supportive of Triesman, that is the public, by the way, Scudamore).
In the red corner, we have Scudamore and the PL, the hyperowners and their illicit wealth, the bookmakers, rogue match officials and players, the Murdochracy, the Guardian journalists, #######################################################
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Good versus Evil is not an absolutism that I choose to believe in, but "it is Good which appears allegorical in a world dominated by the categorical instance of Evil" - Jean Baudrillard.
A brief aside. For somebody who grew up knowing that the Guardian, the Manchester Guardian, was the mainstream mouthpiece for an alternative to our capitalist hyperreality, the decline in the paper's output since it converted itself to the New Labour market mantra is really disturbing.
Henry Winter, Brian Moore and Patrick Barclay at the Telegraph are actively confronting the corruptions in the game. For example, in addition to a thorough treatment of the argument between Scudamore and Triesman, the Telegraph today brings exclusive details of a rigged Championship game in England.
Traders for British firm Spreadex noticed "a massive movement at around half-time" in the Championship match. An expert, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said he had "not seen anything like this in 10 years of working in the industry" and expressed concern for "the integrity of the English game". The money was placed in the Philippines and the gamble was landed by a "major on-field event".
We have examined the data on this game and the authorities need to act immediately.
The Guardian, meanwhile, puts out the corrupt line almost exclusively - David Conn's intensely stupid reading of the 39th Step last week could have been written by Scudamore himself; there is no doubt that Scudamore does write Paul Wilson's lies; David Lacey is weakness personified; David James writes columns jesting about insider rigged events; Ladbrokes and the Racing Post are given space to provide betting market disinformation.
This is simply a disgrace. One leading agent provides inside knowledge to the paper in return for media exposure for his clients, for example.
This is not journalism, it is commercial propaganda.
When we first started publicising the corruption in the English Premiership two years ago, it was difficult to find fellow fighters.
Insiders all had their grubby hands in the till and were not willing to jeopardise the mortgage and the private school fees for anything so intrusive as integrity.
The battlefield is changing.
UEFA are thinking of going even further than Lord Triesman in attempting to rid the game of the corruption that defines it, by introducing a Europe-wide licensing system for clubs.
ScudamoreWorld is fully defined by the very carefully worded statements below.
Read between the lines and you will comprehend the allegations that are about to be laid at the door of Scudamore and his scallywags.
Patrick Barclay: "The full extent of damage inflicted on football’s structure during a period of perceived boom has yet to be revealed — as if the Football Association and UEFA did not have enough to resolve as belatedly they contemplate the iceberg of excessive debt among clubs, ... and still, on the Titanic’s deck, the band play on."
Michel Platini: "Society has passed scourges on to the world of sport: money laundering, match fixing, illegal betting, racism and xenophobia, doping and child trafficking."
Patrick Barclay: "There is no good reason for an agent to be paid by a club in connection with a transfer. And who permits it? Those who let Carlos Tevez play on. Those unable to prevent conflicts of interest that could undermine confidence in the football results. Regulators not regulating."
And, finally, why has Frank Arnesen, the sporting director of Chelsea, not been questioned yet over his comments on the BBC Panorama programme two years ago, when he admitted to tapping up a young player from Middlesbrough?
We understand that Chelsea are powerful - check out ############################
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The omnipotent autocrat does not even see the need for justice to be seen to be done.
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