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While watching the dancing lasts night, I was reminded that George Cohen sold his 1966 winners medal some years ago to be able to provide for his family.
So a bit of googling, turns out that pretty much the whole team have sold their winners medals to provide for their families. apparently Martin Peters had to sell his one when he was made redundant from his insurance job in the early 2000s !

Come forward to today and the astonishing amounts of money that our current unsuccessful top top footballers get paid per week and it is more per week than these guys got for a one off payment for winning something our modern top top footballers haven't been within a sniff of winning.

Ah, the justice of it all ...

Maybe Greg Dyke should have some people on his commission who have won the bloomin thing, and pay them a modern salary to do so as a bit of a thank you


Blimey I'm miserable this morning !
 
What a shame to have to sell that medal just to provide for the family. It's not just footballers that are on mega money. It's all prime time viewing sports people. At least they put their bodies/lives on the line for our entertainment. It's movie stars that wind me up commanding obscene pay cheques.
 
It has always been the same, 40 years from now you will be saying that you can't believe So Long Kick was recently transferred to Koo Poo United for W$82 trillion
In my day poor old Gareth Bale only made £80m.
 
D4RK1 said:
What a shame to have to sell that medal just to provide for the family. It's not just footballers that are on mega money. It's all prime time viewing sports people. At least they put their bodies/lives on the line for our entertainment. It's movie stars that wind me up commanding obscene pay cheques.
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Movie stars have to get in shape for films & a lot do their own stunts so surely they put their bodies on the line. & let's be honest football is basically a non contact sport these days.
 
Fair point PS, but it's only a small number of actors that change their body type and do stunts. They are worth too much to the studios to get hurt. I'm not defending footballers (I've played for 30 years) either.
 
It is a shame they had to sell their medals. Especially when you get the likes of Tom Cleverly,Joey Barton & Joe Allen that are all on an obscene amount of money for playing average football.
 
Back in those days. Football wasn't as profitable, the revenue brought in by todays players although stomach churning justifies their salaries. Lets face it, Real Madrid have probably covered the costs of Bales signing in shirt sales and other promo already.
 
The whole 'celebrity' culture bugs me. They all crave, fame, publicity and money and then whine when something goes against them. There are hundreds of thousands of people out there of more value to our society.
 
DappaDonDave said:
Back in those days. Football wasn't as profitable, the revenue brought in by todays players although stomach churning justifies their salaries. Lets face it, Real Madrid have probably covered the costs of Bales signing in shirt sales and other promo already.
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If that were true why are so many clubs, even in the bloated and over rated Premier League, struggling financially and heavily in debt.

It has long been a myth that football is a business and yet it employs the financial controls and management of the mad-house.
 
DappaDonDave said:
Back in those days. Football wasn't as profitable, the revenue brought in by todays players although stomach churning justifies their salaries. Lets face it, Real Madrid have probably covered the costs of Bales signing in shirt sales and other promo already.
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Well non one noticed my veiled criticism of the "top top" footballers.
I heard one of the better commentators saying that Michael Owen was a great footballer. Bobby Charlton was a great footballer. I would hasten to suggest that Geoff Hurst was a great footballer, not many score a hat trick in a World Cup final.
But Michaal Owen, Steven Gerrard, ? I'll give Gerrard his Euro Champions medal, Ok, but he is not great. ferguson want wrong in that respect .

I reckon Dyke and Roy ought to get the 24 (or how many get picked for Brazil) aNd tell them that each of them has to give one week's wages to the equivalent position player in the 1966 squad, and then the old boys give the current "top top" players a bit of mentoring and guidance on how to be professional and win a World Cup.
 
sev112 said:
I reckon Dyke and Roy ought to get the 24 (or how many get picked for Brazil) aNd tell them that each of them has to give one week's wages to the equivalent position player in the 1966 squad, and then the old boys give the current "top top" players a bit of mentoring and guidance on how to be professional and win a World Cup.
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I like the first suggestion - or even 2 weeks wages!

But I'm a bit dubious about the 2nd. I'm not sure I'd want England's players to be mentored by the likes of Norman Hunter or Jimmy Greaves!
 
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