Quote Originally Posted by animallittle3 View Post
Your quite right Pass that the football economics don't favour the women's game and it's a solid point .

Where that point would be dismissed as irrelevant in a Human Rights court in my opinion is the fact that , let's use Chelsea as an example , Chelsea are a professional football club that employs male and female footballers under one umbrella , both genders are employed to do the same job .

Let me give you another example where men and women sports people competing in separate events but do the same job get the same pay , Wimbledon .

The ladies economic argument doesn't stack up at Wimbledon , Flushing Meadow , Melbourne or Roland Garos , the men's singles final is watched globally by more people than the Ladies Final but the economics don't count for anything because both genders are playing a Grand Slam event at the same time .

Both Chelsea football's clubs play professional football over a weekend , every single weekend during the football season a Wimbledon type event is created by professional footballers getting paid by Chelsea Football Club .

Now if the ladies weren't part of Chelsea and were called Chelsea Belles and a separate entity altogether then economics would determine that Chelsea Belles would do well to even pay their players expenses never mind anything else .

Once you bring the ladies in and pay them to play professional football same as the men then you are absolutely wide open in my opinion .

Start flashing Euro winners medals , a world cup silver medal , one hundred caps and 30 WSL goals every season and you go from professional footballer to elite professional footballer just like Lampard but minus the England medals .

It's the Serena Williams and Novak Djokovic at Wimbledon example .

Billie Jean King wasn't sat in the stands on Sunday morning in Sydney for nothing in my opinion , she's getting sounded out as a consultant .

Billie Jean was winning these battles in the 1970's when the world was a totally different place .

The sight of that women should send shudders down the spines of the hierarchy at Stamford Bridge .

Like it or not Millie Bright as England captain will be getting £50k a week before too long .

Not because I think she warrants it but because today's society and culture says she does .

Yes I agree that it's pretty much a certainty despite my take on the situation.

Where does this stop though? Does a thing like common sense and practicality become irrelevant in today's society?

Football has, for a long time, bewildered me with the insane money that players get payed. The chickens are coming home to roost on this one, that's for sure.