Everything That Is Wrong In Football

[Gemmel]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27755342

 

Laugh or Cry?

[eurosaint]

I suppose they read that FIFA will make £2.55 billion and thought that their measly £61 grand was a drop in the ocean

[Halo Stickman]

The World Cup is off to Russia and Qatar (probably); Lallana and Shaw are off to Liverpool and Man Utd (probably).

 

The Beautiful Game: a pitch, a ball, two nets and lots and lots of filthy lucre.

[JackFrost]

More like, completely predictable.

 

There's so much politicking and corruption in African football that the above story is actually a regular one involving various African teams before World Cups and Africa Cup of Nations tournaments, and there'll be more to it than meets the eye.

 

The amount of matches I've seen in the AFCON over the years that have been blatantly rigged and have descended into complete farce. The tournament's worth watching purely for entertainment value.

[Bearsy]

Is that £61k per player?

 

How much do the england bros get? Weren't it that they used to give their England dollar to charity?

[buctootim]

Saw this today. A lot is wrong with stratospheric wages paid to PL players - but a PL club paying employees less than the minimum wage just brings it into focus. Personally I couldnt run a business that pandered to every whim of one group earning c£50,000pw whilst making a minimum wage group pay for their uniforms.

 

"HMRC said this week that more than £4.6m had been paid out to 22,000 people, including staff at a Premier League club, who had been paid less than the minimum wage. The football club, which HMRC did not name, made staff pay for their uniforms and also made deductions for travelling time, had to pay arrears of more than £27,500 to 3,000 workers".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27751722

[JonnyLove]

Saw this today. A lot is wrong with stratospheric wages paid to PL players - but a PL club paying employees less than the minimum wage just brings it into focus. Personally I couldnt run a business that pandered to every whim of one group earning c£50,000pw whilst making a minimum wage group pay for their uniforms.

 

"HMRC said this week that more than £4.6m had been paid out to 22,000 people, including staff at a Premier League club, who had been paid less than the minimum wage. The football club, which HMRC did not name, made staff pay for their uniforms and also made deductions for travelling time, had to pay arrears of more than £27,500 to 3,000 workers".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27751722

 

Lets hope it's not us