If you think about the pricing of football in general, and the Poppies in particular it is shocking how prices have risen over the years. Players’ wages, particularly at the top end are nothing short of obscene. How can anyone justify earning upwards of £100,000 per week for kicking a ball around? Particularly if they are English, and the chances are they can’t even kick it around very well.
When you hear the top players bleating about a miniscule rise in upper rate of Income Tax and how it will impact on their lifestyle it takes enormous effort for the average man in the street not to grab the nearest heavy implement and beat their whining faces to a sticky pulp. Not that most of the top earners will actually pay much in the way of Income tax once their army of Accountants gets to work.
Whenever those at the top of an industry are earning astronomical amounts of money, those further down the pyramid enjoy whetting their beaks too. Suddenly you have very moderate players earning tens of thousands, and Clubs going to the wall in an effort to satisfy the bloated expectations of players and their parasitic agents.
Yet while Chairman chase unrealistic ambitions, egged on by supporters, nothing is likely to change. At least not until Sky go bust anyway.
“Beat their whining faces to a sticky pulp.”
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