Manchester Utd star justifies professional footballers’ inflated remuneration packages
Those who watched last week’s episode of Mock The Week may have noticed David Mitchell’s angry diatribe on the concept of a society that gives footballers hugely disproportionate salaries for doing a job that essentially “doesn’t matter”. It’s [...]
Read moreThey’d have to get to the European competitions first!
Michel Platini’s continued his love affair with British clubs yesterday by proclaiming that Manchester City would be banned from competing in Europe if they failed to “respect their budget”. It seems the Kaka saga didn’t impress [...]
Read moreAs net pay decreases, so will top European talent
In order to pull the UK back from the brink of financial apocalypse, Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling has revealed some risky plans in his pre-budget report. One bail out strategy [...]
Read moreWow, that’s surprising
Sports Illustrated – whose dedication to fiscal issues is almost as great as their dedication to taking pictures of pretty ladies on the beach – have published a list of the twenty highest earning non-American sportsmen. They did this back [...]
Read moreMidfielder devises cunning plan to waste more of Newcastle’s money
Joey Barton’s post-Christmas ‘leave of absence’ has cost his club over £200k in wages, and now he has found another way of depriving his club of liquidity.
Barton was given bail on the condition that [...]
Read moreJoey Barton’s special Christmas breakfast is breaking the Newcastle bank
According to his therapist at the Sporting Chance clinic in Hampshire, Joey Barton will not be playing in ‘the near future’.
The therapist, the brilliantly-named Peter Kay, says Joey will remain with him ’24 hours a day’ until his [...]
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