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How much do you earn vs a Premiership footballer?
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The same Tweet sent as a reply to @BBCsport's
'Ever wondered how your wages compare with the biggest names in football?
Yeh. In the same way I regularly compare Ants to Elephants, Mice to Mammoths and my mug of Tea to the whole ***king ocean.
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No need for me to check. I already know I'm just scratching around in the dirt.
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Footballer pay just makes a mockery of 'those actually working for a living'.
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I don't think anybody can argue they are overpaid, though as a career they start working around the age of 13 and those of them that make it, of which topflight players are going to be an extremely tiny minority, their career is over in their early thirties (unless an injury ends it sooner), leaving them with no training of qualifications for much else afterwards.
The top music and movie stars would probably be paid the same amount. The only difference is we don't see that as a wage packet, because the goods they sell are more measurable than entertainment.
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I don't have any problem with people at the top in a profession earning top money. Just that in Football, at least in this country, a lot of 'hard working people' (©Govt) are unable to afford attending matches. The balance needs redressing but I doubt that will happen.
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"in this country, a lot of 'hard working people' (©Govt) are unable to afford attending matches. The balance needs redressing but I doubt that will happen."
It'll only happen when the stadiums are half empty on a regular basis...
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Si Wooldridge says...
"It'll only happen when the stadiums are half empty on a regular basis..."
Or you don't have to join a queue for a few years to get a shot at a season ticket. cough arsenal cough. :(
That's capitalism for you.
But there is nothing stopping you going to see a lower team. Then that side would suddenly have more money for better players, and you could help them slowly become overpriced too!
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"But there is nothing stopping you going to see a lower team."
Yeh, like if I can't get tickets for the Led Zepplin reunion concert I can always get in to see Adge Cutler and The Wurzels.
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