He should go, he is no better than Keys or Gray. His comments are just as despicable as Donald Sterling in America.
While these comments were made in private, and people make stupid jokes in private, he is a public figure in a position of authority and that means he should be held to a higher standard. Anyone CEO type figure knows that.
The fact that the FA and the PL think they can just sweep this away shows that football is so corrupt at every level of power.
The NBA set a precedent with Sterling and, while it may open the floodgates regarding where you draw the line on private and public, they should be applauded. Unfortunately the people in charge over here are unwilling to stand up and be counted when the time comes.
Marina Hyde is brilliant. Her book on the absurdity of celebrity culture is laugh out loud funny. She regularly destroys people, yet gets little coverage for it. I'm just a tiny bit in love with her.
Scudamore is an odious prick - but he'll survive this despite the obvious hypocrisy and double standards over the Elliott affair.
He is a goner. Set up perfectly by the press, they have found (actually more like have timed the release of) a new set of emails to sports lawyer Nick West which now show his initial apology to be a lie (personal emails only). I find the way these asassinations are conducted fascinating.
He is toast. When turncoat Greg Dyke jumps on the bandwagon, that ship has sailed big time.
If he was using his work email then they're hardly that private
Exactly. Scudamore should never have survived the Tevez debacle, but what I've never really understood is why he's so highly regarded. He's managed to negotiate a high price for something only he's selling and which everybody wants? Anyway, my point is that in today's world it really isn't very clever to put anything in an e-mail which might, subsequently, be open to interpretation. It smacks of arrogance, immaturity and, perhaps, a feeling of invincibility.
First release ...private email the PA accessed. Details withheld. Scudamore relies on defence of "emails of a personal nature"
Second set .... emails revealed to be to Nick West, leading sports lawyer at DLA (also a complete caant IMO) including jokes about "gash" and "hands on shaft".
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http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/may/14/premier-league-richard-scudamore
[By the way, you wasn't the PA who leaked these e-mails was you].
While these comments were made in private, and people make stupid jokes in private, he is a public figure in a position of authority and that means he should be held to a higher standard. Anyone CEO type figure knows that.
The fact that the FA and the PL think they can just sweep this away shows that football is so corrupt at every level of power.
The NBA set a precedent with Sterling and, while it may open the floodgates regarding where you draw the line on private and public, they should be applauded. Unfortunately the people in charge over here are unwilling to stand up and be counted when the time comes.
It is sickening.
May 2014: FA chairman (Dyke): "Policy has ALWAYS been that we do not consider... private email communication to amount to... misconduct."
Scudamore is an odious prick - but he'll survive this despite the obvious hypocrisy and double standards over the Elliott affair.
He is toast. When turncoat Greg Dyke jumps on the bandwagon, that ship has sailed big time.
Bit sanctimonious IMO but its these muppets that pretend they are whiter than white in the first place, so they deserve to drown in their own vanity.
First release ...private email the PA accessed. Details withheld. Scudamore relies on defence of "emails of a personal nature"
Second set .... emails revealed to be to Nick West, leading sports lawyer at DLA (also a complete caant IMO) including jokes about "gash" and "hands on shaft".
Fleet Street 2 v Scudamore Epic fail
I think this is where you went wrong