I am sure this has been asked before - but I haven't seen it.
2007-02-12 02:18:29 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Other - Sports
My answer is both Yes and No, as Im inclined to agree with dsclimb1, Some sports like Football(soccer) are to be honest spending rediculous ammounts of money on players, earning an average person wages for 4 months in a littler under a week. However on the opposite end of the spectrum there are the lesser known sports where the participants are generally having to actually work a real job and do the sport in spare time after that.
2007-02-12 02:29:48 · answer #1 · answered by tgn_rogue 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would use the term loosly when talking about 'sportsmen' and soccer players, yes they are over paid but it is very easy to see why.
The money soccer players are paid has been artificially inflated in order that the managers, coaches and sundry other hangers on can also be paid excessive wages.
Who should be valued more an eighteen year old soccer 'star' or a working man or women bringing up a family?
2007-02-12 10:33:35 · answer #2 · answered by john k 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes definately. Although sport salaries are increasing every year, our sporting success in this country is no better, so what's the point? If more money meant more trophies, gold medals etc then so be it, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Its all money down the pan.
2007-02-12 10:25:46 · answer #3 · answered by beanie 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Definitely in the English football Premiership. £150,000 per week for playing football is ludicrous when you think what workers doing dangerous, stressful jobs receive. We can't even win anything. It should be NO WIN, NO PAY!
2007-02-12 10:31:57 · answer #4 · answered by Starman 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no they dont, WAG's like victoria{ posh...my backside } beckham and colleen { i dont spend waynes money i earn my own.....heaven knows doing what though } mcloughlin, dont come cheap, shopping and lunching with friends 12 hours a day,7days a week soon mounts up, so becks and co deserve a huge payrise, perhaps we could get rid of the oap's pensions to help fund it? oh sorry my mistake,we already have.
2007-02-12 10:31:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes they are, people slave their gut out cleaning the streets of london in the fcuking freezing cold earning $hit wages and then you get some guy playing football for 90mins and end up earning thousands
2007-02-12 10:31:20 · answer #6 · answered by L 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
obviously they are but thats not going to change, wages will just keep increasing as the years tick by.
but we are the ones that pay their wages through buying tickets for £50 and club shirts for £40 etc
2007-02-12 11:45:22 · answer #7 · answered by the southern dandy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, they are earning a hell of a lot more than today's sportswomen, which is a gross inequality, however much they are being paid as sporsmen!
2007-02-12 10:26:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes footballers are earning miles to much money. this money could b put to better uses.
2007-02-12 11:40:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but the Owners make too much also. They should help their cities.
2007-02-12 10:44:26 · answer #10 · answered by Gerry S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋