the players wages are criminal and stupid!! and its the supporters who pay them! boycott a few games.agree?

Answer 1

Totally obscene, how can anyone justify paying some guy £100,000 a week for kicking a ball about. Watching some matches during the last world cup I thought what a waste of money, some of those over paid nancy boys couldn't have scored if the goal posts where forty feet wide and twenty feet high. I don't even go and watch matches anymore, much too expensive.

Answer 2

No, completely DISAGREE. Some of the players are worth every penny, some are not. But they don't get paid that much compared to a lot of jobs. I'm a trader, I work with people without a brain cell between them, but if a plane goes into a tower in New York, they can click a few buttons and make millions, tens of millions of pounds. Footballers entertqain, they do something good, and where would the money go if they were on 5 shillings a week maximum wage? In some fat chairmans pocket - that would be a crime! Some guys in my industry, like Boon Pickens, Paul Tudor Jones make 10 figure (1billion) a year incomes, speculating on the mkts .... have you heard of them? No. Do they do anything good for YOU? No. .... and yet, you want to boycott a sport that makes millions happy, and fans are happy to pay thousands to see..


strange!

Answer 3

In defence of the players, as Elizabeth Taylor said when she was criticised for being an over paid actress "If someone is going to be stupid enough to offer me a million dollars to appear in a film, I'm not going to be stupid enough to turn it down." The fans don't pay the players, the clubs do and until they decide to stop being daft and acquiescing to exorbitant wage demands, I don't blame the players for taking advantage of their stupidity. Boycott games? Hell no.

Answer 4

footballers are entertianing to watchand i am a big fan of Huddersfield town, but they dont get payed that mutch cos theyre only a league 1 team. but yes i agree with you all they should get is a avaridge persons wadge. they dont work as hard ore as long as an police man, army troop, paramedic, scientists , doctors, charity workers. and there work is more important. how manny football players save lives and work12 hor shifts. 1 person who dedicates themselves to any job what saves lives and makes the streets safer is more important to the world (unless you are a gangstar) than a football player. all they do is kick a football around every day. if the chairman spent less money on players wages he could give alot of it to charity and save a lot of lives. so baisicaly the gready players are killing people in other countries cos they dont ern that money. they also should pay more to the poor people that made them cos they ern mony but they hardly get any of what they ern. MOST! footballers are gready twats. BUT NOT ALL OF THEM

Answer 5

Disagree - they are entertainers paid the going rates that equate to the audience they draw (and the spectators account for only a small proportion - most is corporate money) - and although I agree they are not worth the huge sums, it is a global thing and unless the whole football universe implodes and we have a global soccer 'downsizing' I cannot see how it will change. The sad thing is it is killing grass root and little league footie.

Answer 6

I do agree that many athletes get paid too much. You can tell and smell who is all about the money and publicity, and who is for the love of the sport. It's not wrong to want more money, especially in todays society, but the hunt for the almighty dollar has cheapened many things in our culture, and that includes sports. Even though professional wrestling is based on publicity and entertainment, those guys and girls commit themselves to far higher athletic feats than those of other sports, but don't get paid anywhere near that of a MLB, NFL or NBA player, and they risk way more physically and mentally, but you can see that they are in it for the love of the sport.

Answer 7

They are part of the entertainment industry & are over-paid as such. If everyone wants to hurt football, stop watching it on TV. However much we pay to watch a game live is nothing compared to the amounts paid by TV companies to secure the rights.

Answer 8

its up to the players own moral judgement to take a price cut and get the prices lowered, even for one season. would they do that take an 80,000 quid drop perweek. i very much doubt it. all the manufactuers associated with football especially the replica kit makers make a killing from 3rd world countries indentured slavery. if ueafa put a price limit on the kits then maybe the fans and everyone else would get a fair deal.

Answer 9

I've boycotted every game ever played since 1985.
I never got 'into' football but in '85 I became old enough to realise that the money could be put to good use rather than perms and ugly suits.
I've never seen any evidence to the contrary.

Answer 10

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