- May 21, 2007
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Crazy that £250k is "only" a weeks wages for some of the PL players, i say it all the time when the smaller clubs get wound up for owing amounts like 1to10K
Was it Darlington that built a larger ground, couldn't fill it and got wound up for owing relative peanuts?
I'm not suggesting it's for PL footballers to bail out others but it's going on out on loan to clubs like Orient and the fans that allows them to further their careers and go on to take home such generous wages.
How long/much would it take the players who grew up at London clubs to put a bit each in a pot and buy L.O and some of it's debt and hand the keys over to somebody decent in return for a certain percentage of their donation being paid back upon their retirement from the game. A sort of pension pot that keeps them involved with football doesn't seem the most mental of ideas although i grant you it's a very unlikely romantic idea that won't happen.
Football sometimes needs saving from itself and the FA should be sacked off, replaced and overhauled for incompetence and negligence the show on an alarming rate and scale.
FA imo is the definition of unfit for purpose and the biggest hindrance to the national teams success.., regardless of the players and their yes man choice of manager. Until they are shut down and rebuilt football in this country will always suffer.
The pl is a very successful company, financially and marketed well, even if not perfect. The fa's a shambles in comparison, an embarrassment