June 5 – Premier League Chief Executive, Richard Scudamore, is to undergo heart surgery next week, Scudamore informed member clubs at the league’s annual meeting today.
Described as “a routine heart operation to correct genetically defective valves”, the operation has been planned for the off-season “to minimise the impact on the running and decision making capability of the Premier League”.
Scudamore is expected to be back playing an active role in the Premier League soon after the operation and will return to his office fully at the end of July before the start of the 2014/15 season.
The new football year is a big one for the Premier League as it marks the start negotiations for the broadcast rights renewal cycle (most Premer League rights are sold on a three-year license).
Scudamore has been chief executive of the Premier league since 1999 having previously spent two years as CEO of the Football League. He has been the driving force behind the rapid and impressive growth of the Premier League globally and its establishment as the most commercially powerful football league in the world.
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