Spurs players taking the dollars

[Gassin's finest]

 

[guiltyparty]

It doesn't work like that. If you have a Bentley yet your team mate has a yacht you will feel poor in comparison. If you have a yacht but your owner has a private jet you will feel poor in comparison. If you have a private jet but a friend has his own island you will feel poor in comparison. People will always want more and will have their agents telling them what to do to maximise their earnings.

Absolutely, and in a good, functioning society you also have people standing on the sidelines, ribbing the super-rich mercilessly. I like that about England, it keeps us grounded. We're becoming too much like the US, where personal achievement, wealth and commercialisation is celebrated above all else, regardless of the effects on society.

There's some right wannabe chairmen on here. I'm the first to flag up when things make commercial sense, but taking the piss out of how ridiculously money-driven the game now is just a basic need of most fans. (Although the original point of this thread was actually hoping to get some older ones added, to show how times have changed).

I totally get why Spurs have released the three kits they have, for example, but I won't be buying them (OK maybe the yellow one).

I love how fans turn on fans on something like StubHub - how dare someone who can barely afford a season ticket make a profit on our sacred parchments! - but when a multimillionaire footballer who earns your lifetime earnings in a year and a half of average football force-feeds the fans a new razor he's not even used, it's A-okay.

I know quoting Bill Hicks is the most student, passé, unoriginal thing to do, but it just seems appropriate…

 

[fatpiranha]

This isn't a communist country.
If everyone was willing to do anything for money perhaps everyone would be happier.

Who do you want dead and how much will you pay?

 

[the shelf]

I couldn't care less what he was selling if his performances for us were anything to shout about but they haven't been.

 

[dagraham]

I think people are forgetting the most obvious one : Ginola.

It's ok though, he's worth it.

 

[JerryGarcia]

Jamie Redknapp is the worst by far if we're including former players, he takes money from Sky to go on TV and pretend he knows how to be a pundit. Ginola was worth it but Redknapp is just living a lie for money.

 

[guiltyparty]

I think people are forgetting the most obvious one : Ginola.

It's ok though, he's worth it.

 

[WalkerboyUK]

Jamie Redknapp is the worst by far if we're including former players, he takes money from Sky to go on TV and pretend he knows how to be a pundit. Ginola was worth it but Redknapp is just living a lie for money.

Let's not forget the Thomson Holiday's adverts him and Louise used to do...
Advertising all these lovely holidays that no normal fucker can afford!

 

[guiltyparty]

Lineker has done pretty well out of Walkers

Two for the price of one

 

[michaelden]

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Man crush

 

[guiltyparty]

Let's not forget the Thomson Holiday's adverts him and Louise used to do...
Advertising all these lovely holidays that no normal fucker can afford!

"We dream about it… we research it… we fantasise about it… we can't wait for it…"

Phwoooooarrrr *rubs tight, shiny-trousered legs*

 

[Gassin's finest]

"We dream about it… we research it… we fantasise about it… we can't wait for it…"

Phwoooooarrrr *rubs tight, shiny-trousered legs*

Vom

And while on the topic of the Redkernapp clan:

 

[michaelden]

"We dream about it… we research it… we fantasise about it… we can't wait for it…"

Phwoooooarrrr *rubs tight, shiny-trousered legs*

don't they have kids? where the hell are the brats?

 

[Stoof]

Phwoooooarrrr *rubs tight, shiny-trousered legs*

But not too much, though. That's how forest fires start.

 

[Gassin's finest]

don't they have kids? where the hell are the brats?

Staying with good ol' grandad 'Arry

 

[Gassin's finest]

But not too much, though. That's how forest fires start.

I think the amount of static energy Jamie builds up during the average broadcast is likely to rival the Hadron Collider.

 

[TottenhamMattSpur]

Who do you want dead and how much will you pay?

A lot of people.
Now I need to do something for money to pay you.

 

[jimbo]

This isn't a communist country.
If everyone was willing to do anything for money perhaps everyone would be happier.

Yes!

Or I suppose people could have morals instead.

You know, either or.

 

[WalkerboyUK]

Staying with good ol' grandad 'Arry

They employ a nanny.
A while back someone I worked with saw them on the train at Clapham and said the kids really were utter brats, and Jamie & Louise didn't give a shit how they were behaving, leaving the nanny to deal with them instead.

 

[Geyzer Soze]

He should sponsor the throwaway razors. Good for use once, then throw away. Will go around in circles without actually achieving the desired outcome. Still used by the masses and heralded as useful.

Scotty Parker has that market cornered