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i honestly believe that slipper fucker abramhovic is up to something very unsavoury and that the whole chelsea thing will go pete tong

I drove passed that wanker on the start of M40 last week, he was doing 30mph in his big Bentley slowing everybody up.

You can blame United for this. I tend to blame them for everything thats wrong with the world anyway so lets pick them.

Thank god, I was beginning to think the whole world had gone mad and I was the only person who feels physically sick when I hear about how much footballers get paid for a fews hours of performing a recreational activity each week. I have to point out a couple of things though. Footballers don't "earn" their money, but they are "paid" it all the same. If I'm being very generous then $12k pa is about right for a footballer. Discounting playoffs, the football season started on August 6th 2005 and ended on with the FA cup final on May 13th 2006. Footballers "work" on average 10 hours per week, for about 44 weeks per year, so they do around 440 hours of "work" in a year. Even if they were getting paid the ?12k pa I suggest, their hourly wage would still be more than ?27/hour. As it is right now, Thierry Henry is on more than ?15,300 per HOUR. By comparison the national mean average wage is around ?24k, and the median is just ?18k, meaning Thierry Henry is getting roughly a years wage for every match he plays. On top of that they get goal bonuses, assist bonuses, clean sheet bonuses, appearence bonuses... If we all worked like footballers we'd do 1 days work-hours spread over a week for a years pay, just for turning up. When we actually did our job we'd get even more money, and when we helped somone else do their job we'd get more money for that too.

crofter:
Correct, it's what Wayne Rooney did after Euro 2004. I heard that he went back to Everton and demanded ?50,000 per week. They told him they couldn't afford that, so he demanded to be transfer listed.
I agree with ouy about the bench-warmers too. they are literally getting money for nothing.

Fraser:
My Dad was telling me the exact same thing. ?20 per week in todays money would really help sort out those who really do "love football" and would be willing to work a proper job as well as playing the sport they love, from those posing bastards who say it in every interview, then turn around to their club and say "I'm not touching that fucking ball for less than ?130k per week!".

perihelion:
Either that, or he'll just get bored and Chelski will go down the pan under the weight of their horrendous (even by football standards) wage bill.