Naomi Klein: "In moments of crisis, it is possible to speak hard truths with great force and clarity. But when the truth has gone silent, lies, boldly told, work almost as well."

Of course, she is talking about the Paulson Crisis rather than the ScudamoreWorld Crisis, but boldly told lies are boldly told lies, whatever their source. Click to continue reading...

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. Click to continue reading...

Time Magazine has just published it's list of Best and Worst Sports Executives of 2008 and Don Garber came in at number 14, four places above Roman Abramovich and his scary self. Some of the other footie luminaries who made the list where Sir Alex at No.2, EPL boss Richard Scudamore, and Inter Milan capo Massimo Morretti. Click to continue reading...

At times of crisis, you expect your leaders to show strength and courage, to be at the forefront of the action, arguing the good argument and fighting the just cause.
Which makes it all the more disappointing that our Great Leader, the arch self-publicist, Richard Scudamore, has been conspicuous by his total absence from the hyperrealities currently playing out on the stage of English football regarding the fit-and-proper-person's-test (FPPT). Click to continue reading...

PREMIER League chief Richard Scudamore has today announced that he plans to make the Premier League sack race an Olympic event by 2012. Scudamore is currently lobbying IOC members to add the Premier League sack race to the bloated list of pointless Olympic events that nobody really gives two tiny squirts of piss about. Click to continue reading...

The new subscription structure of Football Is Fixed includes provision for a couple of Flashback posts per month, in order that we may either demonstrate our prescience or allow for the continuation of the arguments set out in the original post.

On the day after Richard Scudamore forced Brian Barwick out of the FA, it seemed relevant to go back a year to last August when we had already had more than enough of the Murky One. Click to continue reading...

What would happen if Richard Scudamore was in charge of the Olympics?

While this question was hanging in the air, a more important decision needed to be made.
Do I watch Arsenal against West Bromwich Albion or the Olympic cycling?
The latter won.
Indeed, if the choice had been between the Premiership game and Tobacco Monopoly FC versus the Royal Thai Army, the latter would still have won. Click to continue reading...

RICHARD ‘Baldrick' Scudamore, the contumacious Premier League chief executive behind the much-criticised proposal for an ‘international round' of matches, has drafted a revised plan designed to sidestep opposition from FIFA and the Football Association. Scudamore was forced to bin his original plans after Sepp Blatter indicated such a venture would undermine England's 2018 World Cup bid, [. Click to continue reading...

The controlled journalists were informed on Friday.
The mainstream media placed carefully crafted articles over the weekend.

The 39th Step "is still very much a possibility" according to a Premier League (PL) leak.

Richard Scudamore understands how to hype, scam and otherwise promote His Product. Click to continue reading...

RADOVAN Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader extradited to The Hague on 11 charges of war crimes, has sensationally claimed that Premier League chief Richard Scudamore made him do it. Karadzic is accused of giving orders for the genocide of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica, but the Bosnian Serb maintains he was merely acting as a [. Click to continue reading...

The new subscription structure of Football Is Fixed includes provision for a couple of Flashback posts per month, in order that we may either demonstrate our prescience or allow for the continuation of the arguments set out in the original post.

The article below was originally printed in April 2008 and relates to the illegal machinations that were being unveiled in order that the English Premiership title race would go to the wire. Click to continue reading...

Dileep Premachandran points out that cricket is not the only sport that captures the imagination of the Indian public. In a phenomenon that is an inextricable part of the rise of the Indian middle class, soccer the global game, has caught on, creating a fanbase that is probably as knowledgeable and argumentative as any.

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PREMIER League chief executive Richard Scudamore has reacted angrily to suggestions that he was the mysterious Witness E in the Max Mosley nothing-to-do-with-Nazi's sex orgy trial. F1 boss Mr Mosley was accused earlier this year of participating in a Nazi sex orgy with five prostitutes by the ever-reliable News of the World. Click to continue reading...

Taken from the inside of the toilets of the Premier League's headquarters, this photograph is so rich with possibility that I couldn't not post it up here. I always told you that Richard Scudamore is full of shit. Click to continue reading...

"My shoulders are fairly broad. You take this job knowing it's always going to be an easy ride." So said Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore, taking time out from making plans to ruin English football to discuss his plans to ruin English football with Sky Sports. Click to continue reading...

This morning's top football stories... John Terry (pictured) thinks he's fully recovered from his foot injury. Avram Grant, he say 'No, no, no!' The Sun Global opposition to the Premier League's 'international round' is growing so fast that North America... Click to continue reading...

This morning's top football stories... John Terry (pictured) thinks he's fully recovered from his foot injury. Avram Grant, he say 'No, no, no!' The Sun Global opposition to the Premier League's 'international round' is growing so fast that North America... Click to continue reading...

This morning's top football stories... John Terry (pictured) thinks he's fully recovered from his foot injury. Avram Grant, he say 'No, no, no!' The Sun Global opposition to the Premier League's 'international round' is growing so fast that North America... Click to continue reading...

This morning's top football stories... John Terry (pictured) thinks he's fully recovered from his foot injury. Avram Grant, he say 'No, no, no!' The Sun Global opposition to the Premier League's 'international round' is growing so fast that North America... Click to continue reading...

This morning's top football stories... John Terry (pictured) thinks he's fully recovered from his foot injury. Avram Grant, he say 'No, no, no!' The Sun Global opposition to the Premier League's 'international round' is growing so fast that North America... Click to continue reading...

This morning's top football stories... John Terry (pictured) thinks he's fully recovered from his foot injury. Avram Grant, he say 'No, no, no!' The Sun Global opposition to the Premier League's 'international round' is growing so fast that North America... Click to continue reading...

This morning's top football stories... John Terry (pictured) thinks he's fully recovered from his foot injury. Avram Grant, he say 'No, no, no!' The Sun Global opposition to the Premier League's 'international round' is growing so fast that North America... Click to continue reading...

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