Money Matter$

Gary Neville believes Premiership players deserve their ridiculous wages

Manchester Utd star justifies professional footballers’ inflated remuneration packages

Gary Neville

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 [...]

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Joey Barton gets a private jet

Midfielder devises cunning plan to waste more of Newcastle’s money

Joey Barton

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 [...]

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Joey Barton

The most expensive Happy Meal ever

Joey Barton’s special Christmas breakfast is breaking the Newcastle bank

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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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