The crazy money in football

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Spurs saving some cash by the looks to go towards the new stadium

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Premier League shirt sponsor deals for this season

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Premier League shirt sponsor deals for this season

It's ridiculous how many are sponsored by gambling companies. I like a bet, dont get me wrong and over the years i learned the hard way but this gambling malarkey is shoved down our throats from every angle possible. It destroys lives. The government should be ashamed, perhaps if they weren't making millions of pounds out of it themselves they'd address the issue more seriously. Labour started the gambling trend glamourising it on television through multiple advertising and allowing bookmakers to open up loads of shops on every high st in every town. This is done purely because of the machines inside these bookies. The government exploits the poor, kin rats lot on em.

Now all you see at football is gamble, gamble, gamble. It's all over the place from being on shirts to sponsoring stadiums to going round on the electronic advertising hoardings to being on tv every live match at every opportunity. It's wrong.

The Premier league stinks from top to bottom.

This is a thing kids look up to, these footballers don't cover themselves in glory diving and cheating. Gambling is shoved in your face. Hardly a precedent to set kids is it? Everybugga turns a blind eye to all this. Something as popular as the PL should be setting an example imo

[Exiletyke]

It's ridiculous how many are sponsored by gambling companies. I like a bet, dont get me wrong and over the years i learned the hard way but this gambling malarkey is shoved down our throats from every angle possible. It destroys lives. The government should be ashamed, perhaps if they weren't making millions of pounds out of it themselves they'd address the issue more seriously. Labour started the gambling trend glamourising it on television through multiple advertising and allowing bookmakers to open up loads of shops on every high st in every town. This is done purely because of the machines inside these bookies. The government exploits the poor, kin rats lot on em.

Now all you see at football is gamble, gamble, gamble. It's all over the place from being on shirts to sponsoring stadiums to going round on the electronic advertising hoardings to being on tv every live match at every opportunity. It's wrong.

The Premier league stinks from top to bottom.

This is a thing kids look up to, these footballers don't cover themselves in glory diving and cheating. Gambling is shoved in your face. Hardly a precedent to set kids is it? Everybugga turns a blind eye to all this. Something as popular as the PL should be setting an example imo

Totally agree P&M

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Average wages paid to footballers

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Very interesting looking at those wages with Huddersfield Town promoted the following season.

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Thir**** Chinese Super League clubs have been told to clear debts or face a ban from the competition next season.
The Chinese Football Association (CFA) wrote to all but three of the country's 16 top-flight clubs, as well as five lower-league teams.
The CFA claimed the clubs had outstanding debts on player transfers, salaries or bonuses.
What a farce.
Now they're talking about playing some Premier league games in the US, China & Australia to increase income.
How much money do they want? Who will benefit from this extra money?
Players & agents. Nobody else.

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Once football bought into full blown capitalism with the formation of the PL then as in life you see it's effects for the have not's .

The idea in principle was for the PL to keep all the television revenue for itself and end the more socialist policy of sharing the revenue with the other football league clubs .


They argued that they and they only generated the tv revenue and so they could keep it for themselves .

They mysteriously forgot to mention that many players they had in their teams at that time came from clubs they were unwilling to share the money with .

Brian Deane Doncaster Rovers , Dion Dublin Cambridge United , David Hirst Barnsley , John Fashanu Millwall , Ian Rush Chester , John Barnes Watford , Dennis Irwin Oldham , Dean Saunders , Mark Wright and Ray Houghton Oxford , Geoff Thomas and David Platt Crewe , Neil Webb Portsmouth , loads of em in those days .

Not only that and this is just as much a FL thing too they hiked the ticket prices up to levels unimaginable at one time , and got away with it .

How did they steal the game so effectively from right under our noses and get away with it ?

How can the PL be worth £180 million and one league below it's only worth £5 million , no more than your supervisor at work be on £200k pa while you struggle on £20k .

Kin bollox innit .