Richard Scudamore

David Conn: Football's plutocrats resist call for living wage for staff

The Premier League, the great, sparkling, global advert for Britain is, it seems, a standard-bearer for our deeply unequal society too. The pressure group Fair Pay Network is campaigning for Premier League clubs to pay "a...

Scudamore remains hopeful for 39th Premier League game

Richard Scudamore is standing behind the possibility of adding a 39th game to the English Premier League schedule, as revealed in a statement issued last week. The Premier League chief executive remains hopeful that, despite...

Re: Platini: The savior of English football?

This man can save English football It seems that every time he opens his mouth, Uefa president Michel Platini annoys English football fans. This place has a supremely confident atmosphere, as befits an organisation that has...

Platini: The savior of English football?

This man can save English footballIt seems that every time he opens his mouth, Uefa president Michel Platini annoys English football fans. But is the great French midfielder of the 1980s the most powerful Anglophobe in sport -...

Premier League: Michel Platini: Premier League means England cannot win World Cup

Michel Platini, the most powerful man in European football, has blamed the Premier League for England's lack of success at international level by claiming they will never win the World Cup as long as the domestic competition is...

Outside the Box: Scudamore's role in taking off Thaksin and bringing on Sheikh

While the football authorities might have been hoping that Thaksin Shinawatra – originally deemed a fit and proper person to own a Premier League club – would be found not guilty of corruption at his trial in Thailand, there is...

Let's hear it for the real dreamers like Hull

Ten years ago this week, a young woman named Angie Rowe picked up a microphone, took a deep breath and launched a passionate plea for her local football club. Its debts were crushing, its assets were negligible, and it occupied...