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Premier League CEO R.Scudamore denies top flight is to blame for England's failings

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Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore denies top flight is to blame for England's failings


Richard Scudamore has delivered what will be perceived as a withering rebuke to Roy Hodgson after rejecting claims the Premier League is to blame for England’s recent embarrassments on the international stage.

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Defiant: chief executive Richard Scudamore denies that the Premier League is to blame for England's failings Photo: GETTY IMAGES

By Ben Rumsby10:30PM BST 04 Jul 2013

Chief executive Scudamore was also unapologetic over the league’s refusal to grant Hodgson’s request to schedule no high-profile matches before England's World Cup qualifiers in September and October in next season’s fixture list.

England’s dismal displays this summer, from senior level down to under-19s, have sparked a national debate, with just one win recorded in 11 competitive and friendly matches since the season ended.

The senior side are also struggling to qualify for the World Cup finals next summer and manager Hodgson complained in April that he did not have enough Premier League players to choose from.

However, asked if there were too many foreigners in the competition, Scudamore said: “That’s nonsense, absolute nonsense. There were 210 players qualified to play for England playing in the Premier League last year, and – by the way – they’re all playing in the Premier League.

“And we ought to be able to find 11 to take the field to do well. Those players are playing week in, week out against the world’s best talent. There are other factors at play, which are not our responsibility.”

Scudamore admitted that the Premier League now had to take some responsibility for the development of young players through its Elite Player Performance Plan, which he insisted was already paying dividends.

But he would not countenance any suggestion that England’s hopes of reaching the World Cup had been hurt by the Premier League’s refusal to engineer the fixture list to suit Hodgson.

Scudamore blamed Fifa and Uefa’s calendars for creating a bloated schedule, insisting the Premier League had cut its number of teams since its inception.

“We started with 22, we’re now down to 20, and that’s been the same for 19 years,” he said.

“It’s our international confederations that have squeezed the calendar, not us. So we really get quite bristly at the idea that, with the fixture calendar, it’s somehow us being the awkward ones.”

Scudamore was speaking as the Premier League and Sport England committed £16.8 million to help recruit youngsters into 12 Olympic and Paralympic Sports through the ‘Premier League 4 Sport’ and ‘Kickz’ programmes.

Challenged over whether that represented “small beer” in comparison to the billions now swirling around the top flight, Scudamore said: “It’s huge beer. There is no other company in this country that gives away more than we give away.

“We will give away, next year, more than £260 million. We will give away £50m just in raw charitable causes. There is no other business you can point me to, anywhere in the UK, that gives away more than us.”
 

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