Are you saying they've 'shrunk' the Travelzone ? Far as I know, it still covers as far west as Worthing, east to Eastbourne and north to Haywards Heath. If that changed last week, I suggest you share it with the class as its certainly news to me.
If the Premier League board had simply released a statement saying "Richard Scudamore leaves with a £5m golden handshake as thanks for his role in making the EPL the enormous global commercial success it has become" then there'd be a few rolled eyes, but it would soon be forgotten about.
Its...
But the club isn't getting less. Because of Scudamore, the club is now getting more Sky TV money than it would ever have done before. Its gone up almost 5-fold since he's been negotiating the deals.
It still sticks in the throat as the bloke is already a multi-millionaire, and nobody likes to...
As mentioned, we never directly "paid" the £250k, it came out of the PL's central funding account.
And as distasteful as this bonus it is, under Scudamore's watch and largely thanks to his negotiations, the TV money for the PL went up from 1.2bn to 5.1bn. He also prevented the biggest clubs...