Hopefully this will trigger lots of other charitable donations. I hope so.Anything that saves lives is a good thing and that it’s good that a club as high profile as Manchester United are leading the way, however I think it’s wrong that footballers are being singled out when other wealthy individuals, well paid occupations and organisations are not, prize money from cancelled events could be put into a pot and handed out as an example.
This. What about tennis players, golfers, pop stars, actors, highly paid hedgefund managers (some of which do earn footballer salaries). Whilst some of them may be making donations off their own bat and not making a song and dance of it, its only ever footballers who are talked about in the press as though they 'owe' it more than other high earners.Anything that saves lives is a good thing and that it’s good that a club as high profile as Manchester United are leading the way, however I think it’s wrong that footballers are being singled out when other wealthy individuals, well paid occupations and organisations are not, prize money from cancelled events could be put into a pot and handed out as an example.
Anything that saves lives is a good thing and that it’s good that a club as high profile as Manchester United are leading the way, however I think it’s wrong that footballers are being singled out when other wealthy individuals, well paid occupations and organisations are not, prize money from cancelled events could be put into a pot and handed out as an example.