I happened to be at Fulham football club's training ground at the weekend, and apart from bumping in to a very sombre looking Danny Murphy, the car park was a dead give away for a Premiership footballers workplace. It was awash with 21" rims, blacked out windows and a shed load of Porsche, Range Rover, and BMW badges. It must be funny for the lad operating the gate at the training ground, watching hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of motor fly past each day, well maybe not that funny because the realism in football has, I think, just about disappeared.
Unless Wayne Rooney scores thirty goals from now until the end of the season and bangs in another ten for England I honestly do not see his £250,000 wages each week being justified. Ronaldo yes, because he is a one off. He has done it in two countries already, he has learnt another language, he gets people off their seats - and he has just scored four for Real Madrid!
I know a lot players in most of the divisions and I know what they are on. Some are on very good money and some are on peanuts, but for one player to be plying the same trade as another and yet be earning five hundred times more, is surely not right. I'm not bothered whether one plays for Man Utd or one plays for Hereford, and I'm not bothered if one has a Bentley or one has a Fiesta. What I am bothered about is one taking the absolute **** and believing he is above the rest of the football world (as well as his own team),and I'm not even judging him for the off the pitch stuff because if I was, I would be writing all night!
What I am saying is for Christ Sake someone please do something that actually puts football back in a decent light.
Breath.
CH
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