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It is the best example for the term 'Guilty Pleasure'. Terrible as a film but bloody great because of the footy :-)
I tend to agree with Anelka's attitude in general but I think it's a bit harsh on this occasion. His agent died yesterday. They were good friends and it's hit him hard by all accounts.
WBA insist that he hasn't walked out on them but he has been given compassionate leave for the foreseeable future.
Be good to see wigan tottenham and the swans in the same group in the group stages of the europa league cup
Can't happen. Clubs from the same country are kept apart at the Group Stage.
Like Wiilian and Spurs lol =))
Also, despite Cabaye refusing to turn out for Newcastle due to his head being turned, it looks like Arsenal face competition from PSG for his signature.
Wenger fast running out of decent players to sign with only 8 days of the transfer window remaining.
It's Jose of course who is ever adept at stirring things up, the boy can't help it.
I think the more you spend on transfers or wages the club has to put 25 percent back into a pot where the clubs who have spent the least can tap into for transfers or something like that.
Otherwise I think we should have a EL and the top 5 from each league compete. It's getting silly when the likes of Arse can't compete purely on financial grounds. Man City the richest club in the world have bought success and not earnt it.
Or have a transfer and wage cap.
Anyway I hope Spurs get stuffed today can't stand their fans.
And through prudent financial management Arsenal have earned success but refuse to buy it. The likes of Arse can compete on purely financial grounds. That they would rather make the shareholders happy than the fans is up to them but as they are something like the 3rd richest club in Europe dont have a go at other clubs who choose to invest to achieve success rather than think the only honourable way to win things is to get in French U21 players.
Idiot.
This is my first meaningful intervention in this thread as I'm not a sportsman, but I do have a few things to say regarding the so-called "beautiful game."
@forgotmyusername - finally someone who is talking some sense in this thread. On the wages issue I could not agree more. Football has long ago stopped being a game. It is first and foremost a franchising business where the biggest clubs have the money to buy the best players from all over Europe and beyond. While the hard-working and diligent common man at the shop till earns say £6.19 an hour in a minimum wage scenario these oafs of the football pitch or "green stage" as I call it given all their acting ability on the pitch earn truly obscene amounts of money for kicking a pig's bladder (my late Dad used one as a child in the relative poverty of 1930s rural Northern Ireland) around a pitch. Vastly overrated and overpaid whining prima donnas prancing about on the green stage. That is what football in 2013 has become:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2242281/Liam-Ridgewell-Premier-League-footballer-pictured-wiping-20-notes.html
You get what you pay for and you're welcome to it.
Back of the net.
ENDS.
The cast of Friends (not even a good show) were being paid a million dollars per episode by the end of it's run. 20 odd million per season. Daniel Craig is apparently getting 31 million quid for his next two Bond films.
These are just two of many examples.
Craig's not so bad, though I had no idea he was paid so much as that actually! But Friends I hate with a vengeance. The worst sort of American "comedy". They really don't have a clue about what's funny over the pond, do they?
The sad thing is that his Bond deal is one of the cheaper examples. I read that Robert Downey Jr earned 50 million dollars from Avengers Assemble.
Yes, now you mention it it really is quite ridiculous. I think a lot of these professions really have a day of reckoning coming, you know and not a moment too soon, either.
I'm afraid when it comes to the topic of football that I'm cynical rather than clinical, though I am clinical in my cynicism...
Careful Draggers - all this bemoaning footballer's and actor's wages sounds suspiciously like good old fashioned socialism to me.
If people are prepared to keep digging in their pockets to pay these guys what they want then you can't blame them can you? It's called market forces - if enough people are disgusted at how much these people get paid then their wages will go down. It's pretty basic economics but whining about the poor old man in the street and his minimum wage just sounds like classic lefty whingeing to me, which is more often than not based on pure envy.
Anyway back on topic - Bendtner to form a dream forward line alongside Chamakh at Palace!
Holloway has gone from merely eccentric to dangerously insane. See you in the championship Ian old son.
Great goals from sturridge,and great goalkeeping from the Mig.
Manu next should be a ripper.
Socialism, you say? Down with that sort of thing. Well forgive me, Ice, but I'm very far from being a socialist as I'm sure you know by now. I was just disgusted to see that defender wiping his backside with £20 notes - it rather rubs our noses in the fact that he earns more in one week than most folks earn in a year, wouldn't you agree? I'm sure that you see my point now that I have elaborated on it? I know how capitalism works as well as market forces. Thatcherism created the loads-a-money culture we now see in the City and in footballer's and council chiefs salaries as well as the expansion of supermarkets into selling books, CDs and even selling legal services. This is all at the expense of our dwindling high street shops. Capitalism very clearly has its faults, but I suspect that not unlike democracy it is better than all of the other forms of economy. Greed is the legacy of Thatcher as much as I greatly admire her as a reformer who saved Britain from being the sick man of Europe in the 1980s. This of course was not something the puritanical Thatcher intended, but it was a resultant factor of her monetarism policies. It lead to a renewed "F*** you, I'm alright, Jack" type of culture that sadly still persists to this very day and we saw its ugly head reared most recently in the 2008 bank crisis and resultant very destructive recession. This was the ultimate result of the financial policy of tying the fortunes of the UK up with that of the City of London and its casino banking. Surely that can't be right, socialism or no socialism? I for one miss the more gentlemanly days of the City of London where men carried The Times under their arm and had a bowler hat on while waiting for the train. But then my political hero is Sir Alec Douglas-Home/Lord Home.
There are people I work with who I find crass and uncouth but if someone used their antics as an excuse to cut my wages because we must all be the same then I would tell them where to go. For every guy like that there is a guy like Paul Scholes who just goes home to his family in the evening.
Football clubs are massive global entities raking in hundreds of millions a year. Seeing as there are only 20 or so employees in their organisation who are directly responsible for generating that wealth shouldnt they be handsomely rewarded?
Yes its depressing that chavs like Rooney earn more in a couple of months than I will in my lifetime but thats society's fault for keeping coughing up their Sky money. If you were lucky enough to be born with the talent to kick a ball would you be campaigning for a decent wage for footballers comparable with the man in the street or would you be banking the cheque and driving away in your Bentley? So lets ease off with the faux outrage old man.
Footballers are the same as bankers - they are hated based on envy but the people who pay them are running a business and if they could get results by paying someone else less they would so as far as they are concerned these people are worth it.
My advice if you dont like it is to try and find a job that society deems should be paid an outrageous amount of money or instigate a Bolshevik revolution so everyone can be brought down to the lowest common denominator.
More on topic - wasnt that a turgid load of dross last night?
If someone is willing to pay an individual $50million, then sad to say he must be worth it. Just as top footballers are worth every penny they earn, simply because someone is able and willing to pay them that amount.
Supply and demand
Yes, capitalism in order words and it seems to work out in the end, too. They've tried out communism (Soviet Russia) and corporatism (Fascist Italy) and they were abject failures, so capitalism is the only credible alternative. Market forces, again. Yet, I still have a minor anti-capitalist bias and streak that worryingly rears its head every now and then. Put it down to neo-Butskellism, I suppose!