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Originally Posted by ron1863  I totally agree that "professional" football players are grossly overpaid, I think it was reported that John Terry is on something like £130,000 - a week. To my way of thinking that is obscene, especially when the police, nurses, firemen etc. do work hard for a decent living wage.
I remember reading that the late, great Bill Shankly, manager of Liverpool and also an ex miner used to take all his players down the pits and make them work for an hour at the coal face to remind them how grateful they should be that they could play football for a living.
Some of the present players should be shovelling something other than coal  |
There's always some lovely little stories from Bolton, Blackpool, etc, about (usually) the goalie (because they are slightly mad) doing an 8 day non-stop shift finishing at noon on the saturday and then cycling down to Wembley to arrive just in time for 3pm to play a Wolstenholme-commentated smashing game.
Maybe I exaggerate slightly, but not much!