Daily Mail

Scudamore seeking to solve TV equation

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PREMIER LEAGUE executive chairman Richard Scudamore will have spent a summer break at his holiday home on Cape Cod wrestling with his TV money dilemma.

The Big Six clubs in the top flight believe they should be further rewarded for the interest they generate overseas, rather than the foreign money being divided equally between the 20 teams.

and Scudamore has to come up with a distributi­on formula that placates the six PL giants while keeping the other 14 clubs onside ahead of the next TV tender documents being sent out later in the year.

The broadcasti­ng issue is so important that after an update at next week’s clubs’ summit, a special meeting will be convened in the first week of October to reach a decision critical to keeping the League’s collective ideal in place.

Everton, once one of England’s elite clubs, are said to be the club most opposed to the Big Six being allocated more money, while Crystal Palace are regarded as the most likely of the 14 poor relations to side with the fat cats.

A MONTH has passed with no official announceme­nt from the Football League since their TV rights tender ended with Sky retaining their packages. Yet all the League will say is that their 72 clubs will be told the outcome at their meeting on September 22.

FORMER Hampshire player andrew Murtagh, the latest biographer of the great Lord Cowdrey (right), was granted access to family documents for his book Gentleman and Player but only on condition he didn’t write about Cowdrey’s torrid first marriage break-up and subsequent marriage to the Duke of Norfolk’s daughter, his long- time mistress. Murtagh didn’t speak to Cowdrey’s adversary Ray Illingwort­h either.

THE latest accounts of UK Athletics show that chief executive Niels de Vos was paid a paltry £19,380 bonus over the four-year Olympic cycle when it was widely expected his bonus would exceed the £93,000 he received after London 2012. It is understood De Vos preferred to put £67,000 worth of bonus money this time into his pension pot.

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