Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post
1. Can only agree.
2. Not sure how different that is from many walks of life.
3. 7 days a week for ten months of the year is, I think, overstating it, at least on the ?days? front.
4. Take your point, but to take the example of Washington - he?s an average ?journeyman pro footballer? who earned as much in a fortnight never playing for even a minute of last season as I did in a whole year as a Headteacher 15 years or so ago. Can that be right?
With respect to 2. Whilst you or I may have not had a promotion due to circumstances beyond our control or had to deal with idiots as managers, neither us nor most people face incurring an injury every day whilst working, which could have ended our career. There are specific professions where that might be the case but not most employment.

With regards to 3. A player has to train and play virtually every day and even on a day off has to avoid certain activities and watch their diet etc. Even if I have overstated it, the restrictions on their "free time" are more than other employees.

4. We are back to how can a football player justify being paid salaries that are out of proportion to the rest of society and whilst I don't disagree with you, salaries even at L1 level are IMO too high. But that's a function of the way society works, a football player earns what clubs will pay him whether its right or fair is a good question, but given there is no sign that society is moving towards a system whereby salaries reflect the value of the job to society, I don't see it changing.