Richard Scudamore. Dave Whelan. Karl Oyston. And now Gordon Taylor. I’m afraid it is time for the four of you to hand in your resignations and step down from your positions within football.

Over the past 12 months you have all shown that your views on women, other races and past tragedies are out of touch with the rest of society and it is unacceptable for you to continue at the top of footballing boards.

It is because of these views that parts of society think that it is normal and funny to call victims of rape vile and disgusting terms.

In their eyes, if you can sleaze over women by email and get away with it then why should men on Twitter be punished for their views on women?

The fact that Scudamore was able to keep his job as Premier League chief exexutive was laughable. That he got the backing of the rest of the league’s clubs shows that those in charge at the top should perhaps think about moving on as well.

I also have to question the investigators who felt that: “There was no evidence of wider discriminatory attitudes or inappropriate language or a general attitude of disrespect to women.”

Perhaps they just completely ignored the evidence in front of them. Well that’s easy to do.

I wonder if David Gold and David Sullivan backed him to keep his job? 

The West Ham joint chairmen have Karen Brady as vice-chairwoman and I can’t picture her reading the articles about Scudamore’s views on women and being comfortable with what he said.

And then you have Whelan. I’ve written about him before and how his views on other races and genders may be preventing him from hiring an ethnic minority as a manager.

The fact that you decided to hire Malky Mackay, who is still under investigation for his views on ethnic minorities and women, just shows that maybe his days as owner of Wigan should be drawing to a close.

Whelan was punished with six weeks away from football and a small fine. 

Given that he likes like to spend Christmas away from the cold of England on a beach in Barbados, it baffles me as to why the Football Association felt the need to ban him from any football related activity.

Did the FA have people posted by his sunlounger to make sure he didn’t check the scorelines over Christmas?

Because I’m pretty sure Whelan could have been phoning staff at Wigan to keep him up-to-date if he wanted to.

And Whelan isn’t the only owner who should not be allowed to run a football club. Oyston has shown in text messages that he should not be in charge of Blackpool.

Reacting badly to an angry fan who texted his personal number is understandable

But he should be smart enough to know that getting into an argument with a supporter was only going to end one way.

Oyston’s derogatory views on disabled people and the way you spoke down to a member of society was sickening. Calling the fan a “retard” and a “sad act” is enough for any other boss to be sacked immediately.

That the FA are only now looking into the matter is further proof that there needs to be a change.

Understandable if this was a case of one man’s versions of events against another’s. But Oyston admitted sending the texts. 

“I regret stooping to the level of those threatening and abusing my family,” he said.

“Given my position, I should have acted with more responsibility and reported the abusive text messages, phone calls and answer phone messages to the police, rather than get embroiled in such an exchange.”

But, even so, you can defend yourself in an argument without resorting to the type of language Oyston did. It is a clear case of someone who spoke before thinking of the consequences. 

Which brings me to Taylor. What was going on in his mind when he compared rapist Ched Evans trying to clear his name to the Hillsborough tragedy which left 96 Liverpool fans dead?

His apology in which he said sorry if he offended anyone (he offended everyone) was poor. 

I don’t understand how he’s still in a job.

His handling of the whole Evans affair has been terrible. Pushing teams to allow him to train with them was stupid and put them into a difficult situation.

Taylor has shown that his time has come to an end and those who called for his resignation were right to do so.

To ask for the four of you to resign may seem unforgiving but if you were in any other job and did what you did, you wouldn’t have had a chance to pack you belongings before you were sacked.

The longer you remain in charge, the longer society sees football as a rich man’s game run by dinosaurs out of touch with the rest of society.

It was once the workers’ game and with a change at the top, maybe we can make some positive decisions to bring it back to the people.