X marks the spot! (Football Association vs Sky)

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Product:	Football Association vs Sky
Date:	14/11/01 (26 review reads)
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Advantages: More money for the players

Disadvantages: Get insurance, Get real

The idea of getting 2300 professional footballer to X mark the spot doesn’t sound to tricky, plenty of them sigh their greedy big money contracts with the Roman numeral. It would be really intriguing to find out who the twenty are that didn’t go with the yes vote for the ridiculous strike.

I suspect a few of the Ipswich Town lads were bullied into a no vote by the Football league and the clubs chairman in David Sheepshanks.He proudly announced a couple of weeks ago that he had “talked his players round” in to rights and wrongs of the vote. Shame he cant bully them onto playing football in the Premiership!.

The unprecedented yes to strike vote shows just how thick the players of the beautiful game are. The seventeenth most paid British person in The Prem is the over weight union leader in Gordon Taylor.Hes the greedy tub of lard that could bring down the game like a house of cards.
He’s on 450,000 a year plus fringe benefit and is surely on that wage to keep his gob shut and no striking thankyou very much.

For a man with only two thousand members, he’s on a hell of a salary for those meager sixty-pound subs.
Why did he have to stick his awe in at a time when the game is at its strongest and most beautiful for along time.
I suggest he wont be union boss this time next year if the real wage payers have anything to do with it, regardless of how this proposed strike pans out.

If the players refuse to play in live matches after the twenty one-day deadline if no deals struck, then I can see the game being exposed to the recession and the ire of the hard pressed fans. Clearly the demand made for twenty five million (%5 of the current cash flow) from the union isn’t excessive.

But this union has spent two million on a Lowery painting of the bosses hometown of Bolton.Is that a worthy investment in football memorabilia, or Mr Taylor’s ego running wild. I suspect the later o
ver that and this strike.
I agree the players should all pay the same minimum fee to the union when they first sign pro forms, but once they make the grade there should be a more staggered yearly fee.

I also agree with the PFA putting some of that money bye for young players that get injured or career finishing tackles. But money to twenty year olds that don’t make grade really don’t come into the equation like any other business.
If you’re not good enough in any career it’s adios. The thought that vast sums of cash are needed to send ex footballers to university is laughable, that’s not including new unis of course.

Ok the FA are greedy sods to and have just moved to plush Soho offices. They even had the cheek to apply for a heliport on top recently. Presumably to whisk of friends to corporate bashes to beat the traffic.
I’m sure the FA are equally as frivolous with the TV money as Mr Taylor, but is a clash of egos really worth ruining our national sport guys.

The emphasis should be on the players to take out insurance policies like everyone else in risky careers. Personal assurance policies could be very lucrative to apprentices if they pay a bit and don’t quite make it.
The big shots on seventy grand a week really should be putting more in to the game instead of crippling it on out of control wages.
Two thirds of all football profits are spent on salaries with little filtering down to grass roots.

Its time for the big shots to start bringing down those massive salaries before they crash the game. If fat over fed union bosses can bring about dangerous meaningless strikes,then what can two and a half thousand players who can only just sign their name do to the game we love.

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