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Striker
She's not alone in that!
Premier League: Susanna Dinnage named new chief executive
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She's not alone in that!
MrBraithwaite
Winger
Not really - a large part of the job is doing the bidding of the big clubs.
And they gain lots of positive free publicity, and it helps deflect from how bad for the domestic game the EPL system is.
MrBraithwaite
Winger
Improbable, but not impossible. In a way it is interesting that someone who runs a TV channel is seen as more relevant for the job than someone who works in sport.
Like Platini?
Where does pretty much all the league's revenue come from?
MrBraithwaite
Winger
Not necessarily football.
I don’t know how relevant commissioning Buffalo mating documentaries will be to managing a football league.
Probably not relevant at all, but experience maximising revenues from media and sponsorship rights and developing a digital presence will probably come in handy since it accounts for just about 100% of the league's revenues.
Where do you think Scudamore came from? And how much revenue did the PL generate before and after his tenure?
It’s almost as if you’re setting the parameters to prove your point
MrBraithwaite
Winger
Perish the thought!
He was chief exec at the Football League first
For 2 years yes, responsible for a league of 72 clubs instead of just 20. And where did he come from before taking the top job at the Football League? Not football.
It seems to me that you are at odds with yourself on this thread. You've already acknowledged that football is a business, yet you don't seem to understand that it is being run as a business...
The Premier League isn't The FA. It isn't a "not-for-profit organisation" tasked with being the guardian of the game in England. It's a corporation with the clubs as its shareholders, and the very reason it came into existence in the first place was to generate as much money as possible for its members. Yet you seem to think that 20 clubs have unanimously been convinced to put their own interests to one side in favour of some hazy concept of "good PR" for having appointed a woman.
MrBraithwaite
Winger
Put it this way, if there were three other guys with the same or slightly better qualifications then the positives of having the “first ever woman” and all the attention that goes with it makes her a more desirable candidate from a corporate perspective
Rotten Johnny
Central Defender
I'm disappointed that a one-legged, black lesbian wasn't chosen.
Just goes to show there is so much work still to be done to stamp out the evils of white men.
Potential rapists the lot of them!
Just goes to show there is so much work still to be done to stamp out the evils of white men.
Potential rapists the lot of them!
Were there 3 other guys? Or was she just the best candidate?
This all day, I thought similar with poppy's recently
I think this lass will be good for the premier League
MrBraithwaite
Winger
I dunno, but seems unlikely the PL would be short of male candidates
But she could have been the best? Right?
MrBraithwaite
Winger
Never said she wasn’t, just that I find that unlikely. She is hardly under qualified, but at the same time there will surely have been similarly qualified male candidates.
