When Footballers Were Skint A Journey in Search of the Soul of Football by Jon Henderson
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When Footballers Were Skint A Journey in Search of the Soul of Football by Jon Henderson | 3.17 MB
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Title: When Footballers Were Skint
Author: Jon Henderson
Year: 2018
Description:
Long before television rights ushered in the age of the multi-millionaire footballer, the wages of professional players were capped so that they earned not much more than the national average wage. This was a time when the men who played for the great football clubs of Britain shared a bond of borderline penury with the fans they entertained. It was almost routine for players to travel to matches on the same public transport as the fans and, after the game, to return to homes that were as modest as those in which their supporters lived. Quite possibly, player and fan were next-door neighbours in a street of working families' terraced houses.
Despite the riches that decades later would come into the game, the struggle to end the maximum wage in football seems as worthy as any of the centuries-old skirmishes undertaken by working people against mean-spirited employers. For instance, England regular Tom Finney reflected caustically that of the £50,000-plus gate money the FA...
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Long before television rights ushered in the age of the multi-millionaire footballer, the wages of professional players were capped so that they earned not much more than the national average wage. This was a time when the men who played for the great football clubs of Britain shared a bond of borderline penury with the fans they entertained. It was almost routine for players to travel to matches on the same public transport as the fans and, after the game, to return to homes that were as modest as those in which their supporters lived. Quite possibly, player and fan were next-door neighbours in a street of working families' terraced houses.
Despite the riches that decades later would come into the game, the struggle to end the maximum wage in football seems as worthy as any of the centuries-old skirmishes undertaken by working people against mean-spirited employers. For instance, England regular Tom Finney reflected caustically that of the £50,000-plus gate money the FA...
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https://rapidgator.net/file/e841b1360c9d5f33bda92dda0ac22419/When_Footballers_Were_Skint__A_Journey_in_Search_of_the_Soul_of_Football_by_Jon_Henderson_.rar
https://k2s.cc/file/468c2498ebcf2/When_Footballers_Were_Skint__A_Journey_in_Search_of_the_Soul_of_Football_by_Jon_Henderson_.rar
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