It's the end of the world as we know it.
No, this is not England manager Fabio Capello's response to pictures of , but sports' response to .
Hit in the pocket and we will pay, say the sports, adding that there will be catastrophic knock-on effects for community projects and, in the case of rugby union, support for players whose careers have been cut short by injury.
Having presided over record levels of public debt, you might think it's a bit rich for to start lecturing football clubs on their finances.
But there's an election to be won and while some might argue there are more serious issues for the government to address, football is a good way for the Prime Minister to show he is a man of the people.
During his 10 years in charge at the Premier League, Richard Scudamore has seen six chief executives leave the Football Association.
became the latest to quit this week with FA insiders pointing to differences with the Premier League as the reason for his departure.
During that decade, the Premier League under Scudamore has gone from strength to strength. It has seen its annual television rights values break through the £1bn barrier, the country's top clubs are known from Harrow to Hong Kong and its players have become millionaire superstars.
At the same time the FA has stumbled from crisis to crisis.
But with , spiralling debts and concerns over players' behaviour - Scudamore is facing the trickiest period of his tenure.
English football is searching for a new leader
A series of disagreements with senior figures on the FA board - most notably the Premier League chairman Sir David Richards - convinced him that for all the talk of wanting to change, the FA remains a dysfunctional body, crippled by competing agendas and historic vendettas.
His departure after just nine months in the job is all the more damaging as the former civil servant was making good progress with arguably the most influential figure in the sport, the Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore, after his breakdown in relations with the FA chairman Lord David Triesman.
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