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Let’s Have A Bigger
Slice Of The Cake -
by Matt Badcock

FOOTBALL is a game to be enjoyed but there are times when you really end up questioning
what it’s all about.
The £5m golden handshake being given by the Premier League
clubs to outgoing chief executive Richard Scudamore was one
of those moments.
It also brings home what the lower levels of football in this
country is up against when cash of that amount is handed out
at the drop of the hat.
Yes, the Premier League does give money down to Non-League
football and without it many clubs wouldn’t have been able to
improve their facilities. But imagine how much more could be
achieved and the good it could do for English football.
Part of the problem is the disconnect between the top and the
bottom. Non-League football couldn’t seem any further away Richard Scudamore, Executive
Chairman of the Premier League,
from the riches enjoyed at the elite level. has to survive on a salary of
But, more crucially, the top clubs just don’t appear to give a hoot. £900,000 (£2.5 million with
And that’s what this payment to Scudamore says. bonusses).
Personally, no problem with players being well-paid. They are in an entertainment industry,
pulling in the pound notes and they deserve to get their slice in what is a short career.

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