Scudamore’s former media advisor Phil Lines argues that his old boss could be directly credited with creating a formal tender process for the selling of the league’s rights and for professionalising the way it took them to market – a sharp change from the legendary days when deals for the league tended to be scribbled on the back of restaurant napkins.
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