jt's ?150k per week....obscene or what?!

[algarve addick]

hear, hear, flat eric!

[Deuce Bigolo]

slamdaddy wrote:

> People should be paid what they earn, and pissing about playing
> a couple of GAMES of football does not equate to ?150,000 by
> any stretch of the imagination.

I'm afraid it does.

Football is a Worldwide billion dollar business

Politicians & Public servants generate nothing but I do agree important
essential professions like nurses,paramedics etc are grossly under paid
when compared to say...the corporate sector

> A nurse gets around ?15,000pa I believe, the PM is on around
> ?150,000pa (that's after tax, and doesn't include his pension
> package or other perks). To give somebody who plays football
> the same amount of money per week as the Prime Minister is paid
> in a year is like saying that twatting about with a ball is at
> least 52 times as important as running the country, or at least
> 520 times as important as being a nurse and doing all the
> potentially lifesaving things that entails. On top of that
> footballers don't even work full time, they do 10 hours a week
> at the very most, training AND matches.

Professional football at the elite level is a doddle for those at the top

You try playing 50-70 games a year and see how your body holds up

Unless you've been a professional athelete at the top level
you couldn't possibly understand


>
> I rant about people sat at home not even looking for a job, but
> when you look at their prospects, working hard for 40+ hours
> per week for the next 40 years of their life to earn an average
> of around ?19k pa, and then look at all these primadonna
> footballers, actors and "musicians" who are given vast, vast
> fortunes for doing a very small amount of what most people
> wouldn't even consider as being work, can you really blame then
> for not wanting to spend graft for a living?

And yet we working peasants follow them with religious fervour
Maybe football is a little bit more than just kicking a ball around the park
to members of the community...dontcha ya think?

[keithphillips]

What is really obscene is a company director making hundreds of people redundant and then receiving a massive bonus and hailed as a hero because he has made the company more profitable.

Keith

[Flat_Eric]

Trumpton wrote:

>>


1) I cancelled my Sky Sports subscription circa 1999.
2) I don't.

- Eric

[bristolian]

apparently the wages structure in the league goes a bit like this:

League 2- ?50k average
League 1-?100k
C'ship- ?500k
P'ship- greedy cunts, a squillion a week

As a supporter of a 'small' team it galls me to hear of some of these figures. I met a ex Bristol Rovers player the other day delivering for DHL, he wasn't embarrassed, he just said the football didn't work out. Yes they are greedy parasites on the game but, if you don't like it, go and watch real football in League One or league Two where you at least still feel connected to the community the club stands for.

[Flat_Eric]

bristolian wrote:

>>>


I've been to a few Chesterfield games when I've been back visiting the UK, and more often than not it's been a decent match.

You raise an interesting point there. I mean, how many Man Utd or Liverpool "supporters" live in places like Middlesex and Surrey - probably more than there are in Manchester, I'd wager!

I also heard noises being made as recently as last week about some big Premiership being played in the States in order to "raise the game's profile there" (i.e. make the rich clubs richer).

Just goes to prove (as if we needed any more proof) that top-flight football these days is all about big business, commercialism, sponsorships etc. with the sport very much secondary and simply a means to an end.

- Eric

[Deuce Bigolo]

Pre-season tournaments prove that

The big teams charge a premium for an appearance to play against third rate opposition..

[bristolian]

Is the product that good anyway? I mean Bolton v Wigan, or Derby v Fulham. The bottom 6 are all pretty dire anyway. Get yourselves down to your local team- it drives me mad seeing local kids in Bristol with Liverpool and Man U kits on. Go local!!!!

Rovers til I die

[Arginald Valleywater]

Compared to some NFL/NBA players they are badly paid. Still if you add in Tiger Woods they are gypos. He makes ?50m a year, nobody in sport comes close.