Is It Fair?

[Siobhan]

(not actually sure which board this should go on so I thought I'd just shove it on here!)

Do you think its fair that someone can play a game of football and earn enough money in a week to buy several houses and cars.. yet there are surgeons that save peoples lives on a regular basis and don't earn half as much money?

Discuss...

[Lyn]

No I don't think it's fair. I always always think that footballers are scumbags and don't deserve to earn the amount of money they do. In some ways, it goes for other celebrities such as actors and reality tv shows. I just think it's fucked up that someone who kicks around a piece of leather on a patch of grass earns £100,000 a week for it.

[Name$ - Ca$H]

hmm i dont agree footballers work hard 4 there money so do actors Lyn if some1 sed thell pay you £1000000 2 star in a movie n you didnt hv 2 say much would you do it??

[Kazuya]

No I don't. However there's many factors behind it. Football is not a game, its a buisness. Clubs make millions these days and spend millions which leads to good players earning a lot of money. It comes down to there being no standerd salary and no rules to prevent over spending. When football boomed in terms of finance, the governing bodies (FIFA, UEFA, whoever) did nothing to control it and it spirled out of hand. The boom in prices happened amazingly quickly as well. Juventus paid Liverpool £1 million for Ian Rush and everyone thought they were mad. Nowadays you'd get a very average player at best for that kinda money. If I remember that transfer was in about 1990 - 91. By 1997 bigger clubs are splashing out £30 million on a single player. Player prices and wages rocketed very high over a short space of time. On the other hand, clubs offer their players these contracts and the player simply honour the terms. They are essentailly earning their money by fuliling thir contracts same as you would wherever you worked.

I would agree however that players arent always worth the money they earn, particluarly when you see top flight stars who cant pass a ball ten feet. I CAN PASS A BALL TEN FEET!!!

Mind you Surgeons arent exactly poor are they?

[[dannehpoot]]

I think football players are overpaid, if they really like the sport they'll do it for whatever pay they get, not millions, its appauling that so many people starve to death, but football players have all the money.

BOLLOKS

[Antz]

i dont think its fair at all, like people have said above, people work hard to try earn enough to support their selfs and even their family and footballers are making millions for kicking a ball around? yes they mabe talented but that just takes the piss with the amount they make.

[*Brunette-Baby*]

its discracefull! as much as i like mi football, i dont agree one bit with how much they earn, they earn that amount of money for something they enjoys, it realy wrong, nurses, doctors all them who keep us health should be paid well more than they are, its realy ridiculous!

[analmunchkin]

LOL I've always advocated a similar sort of opinion, good to see others agreeing. THough I think that jobs should be waged in accordance with how unpleasant they are, how skilled you have to be and how useful to society your job is.

So a footballer would get less than a binman, who would get less than a teacher or nurse and doctors and ambulance drivers and police and of course the armed services would be top of the pile. It makes sense!

It makes sense, you find less people willing to clean toilets for a job than kick a ball, it should run on the supply and demand principle like goods: There are a lot of people willing to be footballers, and there are a lot of good footballers, so they should get paid very little. Teachers are highly qualified, work hundreds of upaid hours a year and have to put up with horrible children as well as helping to create the workers of the next generation. That's valuable and useful and not many people are willing to do it!

Finally your soldiers and firefighters and police are putting their lives on the line for us every day, so are maintining the safe continuation of society, our lives and not many people do that, especially as crime increases and police seem to be shot every other day now. Seriously it makes sense that MPs should NOT be able to claim over 100k a year expenses on top of their 40k salary when they are doing sweet F A all the time and just drinking champagne and banging their secretaries and putting their children's university, their secretary's new diamond ring, the wifes even bigger diamond ring, and their tax evasion bribes on their epenses!

I fucking hate politicians... at least you can trust a criminal to act in an illegal manner. Politicians just lie about it and can't be touched half the time. I FUCKING HATE THEM ARRRGGGGHHHH KILLL MAIM DESTORY ANNIAHLATE RAAAARRRRRR!

[[dannehpoot]]

THough I think that jobs should be waged in accordance with how unpleasant they are

THAT IS THE BEST QUOTE EVER INVENTED

[analmunchkin]

no no no! THe BEST QUOTE IS:

"Hey Ling Ling, are you excited about Christmas?"

"Hai!"

"OH A TUMOUR!"

Basically trying to disappoint him since he secretes a hallucinogenic drug when hes disappointed. Its from Drawn Together!

[carter]

Can't blame the football player, blame the club. I sure as hell wouldn't turn down 100k a week!

And being a football player certainly has it's disadvantages.

[Lyn]

like what? Its their own fault for choosing to become a footballer and they shall have to deal with that themselves.

[[dannehpoot]]

I can see what you mean, footballers lives are public knowledge, every person has secrets just famous people tend to get them outed by the press.

[analmunchkin]

Lol you mean like Stephen Milligan. "Oh hi, Im a Tory MP and I get found dead with stockings on and hanging myself while I had a wank. Oh what a secret my asphyxiation fetish is now!"

"The discovery of his corpse in what was an unequivocal case of auto-erotic asphyxiation combined with self-bondage and cross-dressing, led to a greater public awareness of auto-erotic asphyxiation and self-bondage and their risks.

A bizarre detail of his death, which was the subject of much comment at the time, was that he was found to have had an orange segment in his mouth at the time of his death." - Wikipedia

Admittedly the fact it came out was cos he died, the press arent as all knowing as they claim to be clearly

[Kazuya]

Well, we all know the press either make it up or exaggerate something for effect. I take everything I read in the papers with a pinch of salt.