What An Incredible Fluke XV!

After Roberto Mancini lost Manchester City any chance of the title with his views on ScudamoreWorld yesterday, his damning appraisal of the Premier League Product not looking after the health of players due to cost should be added to the list of how ScudamoreWorld has utterly and totally destroyed British football.

The prosecution alleges that, over the course of two decades, ScudamoreWorld - The Premier League Theme Park has deliberately and determinedly destroyed the sport in order to create the Product.

* Bookmakers (both onshore and offshore) in control of clubs.
* Rampant illegal Third Party Ownership of players.
* Billion pound betting markets manipulated by competitive operations.
* Ownership of referees by clubs, bookmakers and other bodies.
* The creation of a fragmented cartel where both co-operative and exploitative corruption is facilitated.
* Illicit transfer payments and bungs.
* Premier League clubs controlled by agents.
* Repeated antagonism towards FIFA and UEFA to the detriment of England and club teams in UEFA competitions.
* Premier League clubs controlling other Premier League clubs.
* Players on second contracts.
* Starving the grassroots.
* The asset-stripping of clubs.
* Fit and Proper Persons being irrelevant as long as money appeared to be brought to the table.
* Ownership of clubs by both local and global mafiosi.
* The corruption of both match and tournament outcomes.
* Offshore connections abound even if sometimes appearing to be onshore.
* Exported the murk to other British leagues particularly the Scottish Premier League.
* Excessive tax avoidance.
* And, most important currently, the failure to provide either frequent or adequate medical screening for players.

In response to this last issue, Richard Scudamore slimed: "We will do everything we can to make sure we reduce [Fabrice Muamba-type incidents] to the point of elimination, things like that."

Things like that...

Scudamore has used family connections to orchestrate the morphing of football into a hyperreal version of horseracing.
For doing so, he should be knighted.

Then we would have two knights of the realm running a massive global criminal enterprise.

What a weird fluke!