Rugby is not only a more better and more challenging sport, but Rugby players have to work so much harder than football players. Unlike Football, rugby requires players to have stamina, endurance, strength, power etc.
The only skill that football requires is running and kicking. Yet despite that Football players are better paid, better respected and more famous. Is this fair???
Do You Agree That It Is Unfair That Football Players Earn More Than Rugby Players???
2007-12-17 00:21:57 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Other - Sports
I think it is unfair and disgraceful what footballers (and the managers) earn full stop! I posted a question about this last week and got a lot of agreement, but also a lot of slating from die hard football fans. Rugby is a much better game, much more enjoyable, you get no problems like fights and hooligans at rugby matches, the money isnt so much of an issue in rugby! They play a game that they enjoy and get paid for it, why should football be any different? Its bloody disgusting if you ask me!
I say pay a few quid more to people who put their lives on the line everyday and who save peoples lives. They are far more deserving than football players and managers!
2007-12-17 00:26:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't think that it's unfair that football players earn more than rugby players. Sure, football players may need a few fewer skills than rugby players, but, do you see rugby on television much? It seems to me that many people find football more entertaining to watch (not to mention play), and I'm pretty sure the entertainment determines salaries. Football is on television a lot, and a lot of people go to see the games, so there is more money coming in to pay the team, the coach, the manager, etc. Salaries are mainly determined by the amount of entertainment and how many people watch it, so, I don't think it's unfair that rugby players are paid less than football players.
2007-12-17 00:27:51 · answer #2 · answered by Mike 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The amount that footballers earn is crazy! I think all sports should have a similar figure. I understand where you are coming from as rugby is a very tough sport and they have more injuries etc. it's because football is more popular x
2007-12-24 00:36:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
well soccer has been around for so long and england made it its main port ages ago when england was basically the whole world so it just spread everywhere as many countries only big sport, so theres alot more money in soccer then rugby, buy rugby players do have a harder job, but its just the history of the game
2007-12-17 00:44:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The basic law of economics is supply and demand. Soccer players are in much greater demand than rugby players are, so they get paid more. Fairness has little to nothing to do with economics.
2007-12-17 00:25:36 · answer #5 · answered by perchorin 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Earning more is one thing but earning a hundred times more is quite another.It's ridiculous that some premiership footballers earn more in a DAY than some nurses earn in a YEAR.
2007-12-17 01:50:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Football is for people that are not tough enough to play rugby.
If you kick them in the shin, they scream and roll around on the ground like they've been shot. God forbid they shoul score, they act like it's never been done before. I've got no use for the lot of them.
Rugby partys are better, too. I bet it's tea and bisquits for the footballers.
2007-12-17 00:32:37 · answer #7 · answered by Joe Angus 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
footballers earn too much but it is fair they earn more then rugby players as football is more popular and better football skills are more in demand
2007-12-17 00:25:13 · answer #8 · answered by edd.hewett 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Players get paid based on how well their sport is doing. Soccer just happens to be a billion times more popular, and so the leagues have more money to throw around. A travesty, I know.
2007-12-17 00:27:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
well, to me. soccer is much more popular than rugby. more people know soccer players than rugby players. and i guess since it's so popular they earn more. it's like basketball, they earn alot because it's popular.
2007-12-17 08:51:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋