Maybe I am on my own here but for me football just doesn’t matter much any more.
I was reading some article yesterday about some PL player I’ve never heard of who is paid £148,000 a week. Distinctly average PL players drive around in Rollers, Ferraris and Bentleys. The Gazette reported today that the average pay for the top paid player at each Championship club is £29,000 a week, £1.5millon a year.
And then I think of the front line workers in the NHS, police and other emergency services in the U.K. risking their lives and without proper PPE, for their relatively low pay. We’ve got it all wrong and I am really beginning to feel real contempt for the professional football business.
Footballers have always been looked upon as heroes. Fair enough. But for me it’s the front line staff in the emergency services, especially those dealing with Covid, who are the real heroes.
Yes, football is a hugely cherished national pastime. But in the end it’s people that matter; 33,000+ dead now, including NHS staff just doing their jobs helping us, for which they have paid with their lives just because the government didn’t get proper PPE for them.
A friend of ours died from Covid19 a few weeks ago, maybe that’s affecting my feelings too; granted she was elderly but she was fit and healthy. I feel very sad and very angry.