Fine, if one lot of oiks want to pay other oiks playing football that's their business ... but don't expect the government and by extrapolation us and our descendants to pay them ... even the Furlough rate of pay would be a helluva lot more than doctors and nurses and paramedics and others are earning for risking their lives on the front line for us.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
What! No ... don't furlough the first team players ... that'd mean we'll (or our descendants) will be paying 80% of their obscene salaries 💵💵💵💵💵💵
Did you hear that their reasoning for not taking a cut is that the country needs them to continue paying tax on their high salaries ... apparently it's them wot's keeping the UK afloat ............
Don’t forget that Manchester United have their head office in the tax haven of The Cayman Islands and don’t pay any tax to UK.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I really don't get why people support a particular team. The name of the team is meaningless. The players don't even come from this country, never mind the town with their name. They might just as well be watching Sainsbury's versus Tesco 's
They might just as well be watching Sainsbury's versus Tesco 's
So true.
Did I mention that I knew the actual Miss Marple? I'm definitely in the Joan Hickson camp on that debate, although I find Geraldine McEwan perfect watchable. Julia Mackenzie irritates me although I really couldn't say why. I quite like that ridiculous Robin Hood film. Total nonsense of course, but I'll forgive a film it's dubious bits if it has Alan Rickman, Morgan Freeman and cinematography that catches English light rather well
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I get that a lot of you hate football, but try and remember there are a lot of fairly normal people who are passionate about it and players only earn what they do, because people will pay to watch them. Sadly no one wanted to watch me do intensive care, so I got paid less. I have supported the same team since i was 5 and it is sometimes joyous, sometimes miserable, but I can't imagine not doing it.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
@punkdoc I don't HATE football. I object to the saturation coverage it tends to get on TV to the exclusion of so much else, but on the whole, if people want to watch it and don't mind that the players get paid really ludicrous amounts of their money for doing it, well fine - no skin off my nose, and if it makes you happy.... My Curmudgeonliness arises from the complete lack of humility shown by 90% of the 'top' footballers, especially in relation to the lives of the fans whose money pays their salaries. Just at the moment, taking a small reduction in their wages to cover the cost of the backroom staff rather than putting that cost onto the taxpayers really doesn't seem like a big ask. They can surely afford it in the Premiership. I completely accept that many lower league players don't earn remarkable salaries. On the whole though, the lower league teams are behaving much better.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Saturation coverage of football on TV??? Only if you have Sky. With the exception of the FA cup there is virtually no football on terrestrial TV any more, and just an hour or so of highlights on a Saturday night.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
They might just as well be watching Sainsbury's versus Tesco 's
Did I mention that I knew the actual Miss Marple? I'm definitely in the Joan Hickson camp on that debate, although I find Geraldine McEwan perfect watchable. Julia Mackenzie irritates me although I really couldn't say why.
I quite like that ridiculous Robin Hood film. Total nonsense of course, but I'll forgive a film it's dubious bits if it has Alan Rickman, Morgan Freeman and cinematography that catches English light rather well
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Sadly no one wanted to watch me do intensive care, so I got paid less.
I have supported the same team since i was 5 and it is sometimes joyous, sometimes miserable, but I can't imagine not doing it.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”