Originally Posted by
wendun
Btw Frog, just to get some context: I know many on here don't rate snooker, calling it a pub game etc. But with snooker there's no hiding, no subjectivity as you can see average breaks per player, numbers of centuries, number of 147s, ranking tournaments won etc. Now quite a few people think that Ronnie O'Sullivan is a genius and that Hendry, Trump, Higgins, Selby, Robertson and Ding are pretty good too. Yet only one player has career earnings over £10m and he's been playing at the top for 25 years, only one player has once earned more than £1m in a year and the average yearly earnings of the top 5 players (£5-600K) - players who I suspect have a higher international profile than most footballers is less than that of many bog standard Championship footballers. Wages in football are just stupid.