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Premier League chief Richard ­Scudamore’s sexist views are today exposed by his former PA.

She reveals how the boss who publicly backs women’s football exchanged sleazy emails with senior colleagues in which females were referred to as “gash”.

In one message, married Scudamore told a lawyer friend who works on behalf of th Premier League to keep a woman colleague they nicknamed Edna “off your shaft”.

And in another he said: “I had a girlfriend once called double decker… happy for you to play upstairs, but her Dad got angry if you went below”. He also mocked “female ­irrationality” and forwarded one joke from a pal about a prince who “banged skinny big t****d broads”. Scudamore – who will be at Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium today for their expected crowning as Premier League champions – likes to be seen as a champion of equality in the game.

He has joined forces with the FA and Sports England to promote a new FA Women and Girls programme with a £2.4million investment over two years.

The soccer boss has publicly claimed the league strives to be at “the leading edge” of the “whole equality agenda”.

But his former PA saw another side to 54-year-old Scudamore who earns more than £1million a year. She told the Sunday Mirror his emails were sent to her ­automatically while she was working for him at the Premier League last October so she could arrange his diary.

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“I can tell you he has no respect for women,” she said. “I don’t think anyone should have to be exposed to such language and opinions at work.

“It was highly offensive. The emails portrayed women in a very derogatory manner. I have worked for very professional organisations and never seen anything like it. That’s why it shocked me.”

A Premier League source told us: “Richard ­realises his comments were inappropriate and wrong but they were not intended for wider recipients. It was meant in a Frankie Howerd style way. His commitment to the equality agenda and anti-discrimination is writ large.”

But one of the Football Association’s leading officers for women’s and girls’ football claimed Scudamore’s crude emails could “put women off football”. She claimed that as a female football leader she was told not to talk to the Sunday Mirror.

Asking to remain ­anonymous, she added: “The people at the top of the Premier League should be sending down the right message to all levels of football.” Kick It Out, the sport’s equality and inclusion campaign sponsored by the Premier League, said ­Scudamore’s behaviour was ­unacceptable and hinted he should face disciplinary action.

A spokesman said “Every employing organisation should have a disciplinary code covering staff conduct, and follow due process at all times when there is an allegation of sexist behaviour.”

Shadow Equalities Minister Gloria de Piero said: “No one should use deeply offensive language like this. Football is a family game, with many women supporters, players and referees. It’s time to kick sexism out of football.”

And Tory MP Tracey Crouch, a ­qualified FA football coach and manager of a girls’ youth team, joined the chorus of condemnation.

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Ms Crouch, who sits on Parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, said: “It’s disappointing at a time when he’s trying to encourage more women to play football that he is using derogatory terminology like this.

“It’s a difficult environment for a woman to be involved in, either as a player or an official, and, while most people have thick skins, it’s important that somebody who is promoting the women’s game shouldn’t be using this sort of language.”

In one crude email exchange the lawyer bragged to ­Scudamore: “Have spent all day fending Edna off my graphite shaft. She is terribly relentless isn’t she?!”

The football chief and father of five who lives with his wife Catherine in a £1.8million home in Cirencester, Glos, replied: “Terribly! Must keep her off your shaft... graphite, sausage meat or flimsy sponge.” Yesterday a Premier League source said the pair claim to have been referring to golf clubs. The lawyer also told Scudamore to “save the cash in case you find some gash”.

Scudamore, who has been chief of the Premier League since 1999, said in one email to the lawyer and another colleague: “You will learn over time that female irrationality increases exponentially depending on how many members join your family. That should keep you within the Chinese government’s one child per family enforcement rules. Very clever those Chinese.”

And he liked a “Male Fairy Tale” joke from one leading figure in football so much he forwarded it. It read: “Once upon a time a Prince asked a ­beautiful Princess, “Will you marry me?” The ­Princess said, “No!” And the Prince lived happily ever after and rode motorcycles and banged skinny big t****d broads...”

Last night the Premier League boss apologised in a statement.

Scudamore’s slurs come after a survey this year found more than two-thirds of women working in football have ­experienced sexism. His former ­PA added: “I think people should know about this man’s attitude to women and the communications he is prepared to make from his work email.”