The almost unchecked expansion in overseas media-rights revenues for the Premier League tells its own story about the extraordinary success of the competition as an international export. But there is one respect in which the league and Scudamore could be described as falling behind their immediate peers in the NFL, NBA, and now MLB: the failure to take a competitive match, or ‘39th game’, overseas.
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