Despite an outcry from fans and most right thinking people, Premier League clubs have voted to pay £250,000 each to outgoing executive chairman Richard Scudamore.

The 59 year old, who earns £2.5m per year including bonuses + expenses, will be replaced by Susanna Dinnage from early next year. Chelsea chairman and close friend of Scudamore, Bruce Buck, proposed the payment in a letter to all club owners, and at a meeting today the majority of clubs voted in favour of the idea.

Believing football fans are completely and utterly stupid, the Premier League dressed it up in a way which made it look as if it wasn’t just a whiparound for a man who doesn’t need the money and announced that it would be paid over the course of three years during which time Scudamore’s services would be retained on a consultancy basis.

Given his basic salary was £900,000 a year, this part-time consultancy will see him earn more than if he stayed in his previous job as the head of the organisation. Nice ‘work’ if you can get it, eh?

With fan groups now mobilising on an almost weekly basis to seek contributions to food banks and other good causes up and down England, it’s an insult that a man so handsomely remunerated over the last 19 years is handed this kind of parachute payment and shows that the Premier League and the owners are ever-more out of touch with the real world.

£250,000 from each club could go back into grass-roots football, community projects, paying part-time staff a living wage, subsidising tickets for young fans, and so much more that would do some actual good, but instead it will simply be used to make an already rich man even richer.

Let’s remember, this is an organisation that spends actual money on GIF police to suspend social media accounts of fans who might like a share a moment from a game they’ve paid a healthy TV subscription or season ticket to watch. If they wanted to use their own funds to give Scudamore a bonus then who could argue?

But for the 20 Premier League clubs to sanction this steaming load of shit tells you a lot about them. It’s unclear if Arsenal voted in favour, you’d like to think we didn’t, but either way all of these clubs should be ashamed of themselves.

Meanwhile, VAR is to be introduced from next season.