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Although it says they voted on it...which PB denies.

It was a predictably corporate response I suppose, but at least it shed some light on how this is ACTUALLY being processed, as opposed to the emotive manner it is currently still being portrayed and discussed. You'd have thought the Premier League would have outlined this properly in their...

Its interesting that this nuance has still not been referenced or acknowledged in ANY of the media reporting on this generous gift, none that I've seen anyway. We seem privy to it on here thanks to a direct response from our CEO at BHA, but the rest of the football world seems oblivious. I get...

That will indeed be the case if Barber's explanation is exactly how Scudamore receives this bung. But thats still not what the media are reporting. If the media's version is correct, then we'd presumably see a £250k deduction somewhere in the accounts. It won't say "Pete's Prezzie" or "Scuda's...

So, fake news ? Or is Barber spinning this more than Shane Warne ? I guess the clubs accounts will show in a year or so's time (when everyones forgotten about it).

What Barber has stated is in contradiction to what SSN are STILL reporting. Someones not got the story straight.

Doesn't sound like every salary and bonus payment for the execs is put to the 20 clubs to vote on. The PL board of directors sort all that out (and no doubt look after themselves very handsomely).

The argument will be that under Scudamore's watch over thew last 20 years, the TV deals have increased almost 5-fold, from 1.2bn to 5.1bn. Clubs are receiving more money than ever before thanks to that. Not enough of that is filtering down of course, thats long been the argument and its...

According to Barber, we weren't even asked. It wasn't put to a vote. Its just another bonus bung to a bloke who's been hoovering up bonuses up for nearly 20 years, and nothing was ever said about it back then. This only got all the attention because the media reported it in such a way as to...

This is the key point then. A % of the TV money and sponsorship revenues is routinely held by the PL to cover staff and executive costs, whilst the rest is then distributed to the clubs. That is the pool that they are "dipping into" in order to bung Scudamore his half mill. He still doesn't...

Maybe, but Scudamore was there for nearly 20 years, and that new doris has barely got her feet under his desk...so thats looking like being a VERY long-term punt to take. Plus, I can't see PL TV deals hitting anything like the kind of upward curve they've had since 1999 under his watch (from...

Well, quite. He is the voicepiece for the club so if there IS any kind of statement from them, it will undoubtedly be via his pen (or 13 paragraph email). You're absolutely right though, every piece of pennypinching / budgeting that the club attempts to justify now will always hark back to...

At least 14 clubs needed to agree to it for it to be carried, so you'd have needed 7 against. They had 5 against, we could've (should've) been the 6th, and maybe helped persuade someone else so that this whole grubby bung could've been binned off. I know everyone is calling Barber out on this...

My suspicion is that Barber will have "nothing to add" to the official Premier League statement that has come out today. Interestingly, but not surprisingly, despite them releasing a statement, there is absolutely no mention of this bung on the official Premier League website either.

Agreed. And the fact that we've only been a part of Scudamore's pool party for one season makes it even more of a joke - we've been on the outside looking in for almost his entire spell. I'd love to hear Barbers justification for this. They needed 14 of the 20 clubs to agree to it in order to...

Well, that was worth binning off the free tea then wasn't it.

Nobody would want to anyway.

Cardiff have come out in favour of it. And they're only going to be in the PL for a few weeks. Bonkers.