When I first saw the money figures paid to the Top Footballers two things sprang to mind "you may be paid the money but what have you really earned it....*~*" and as I have sometimes heard folk complain (over the years) about how the cost of a match ticket has gone up! Er, now I wonder why or do they not see the connection between ticket price and the footballers pay
re: *~* this was said to me by a department head in the path lab where I was a junior technician in the early 70's, when following the levelling (almost) of salaries with the Scientific Civil Service I remarked to him that my increase was nice to get as it went (wracks brains for exact figures???) from £987 per year to £1150 per year..............ah those were the days