booing Frank Lampard

[TheFaQQer]

Firstly Alexei, Lampard is well educated. Unusually for a footballer I'll admit.

Secondly, it isn't your money paying those footballers, so why should their high wages worry you?

It's the money that Ambramovich looted from his homeland, though.

[wendigo100]

It's the money that Ambramovich looted from his homeland, though.

That's just Chelsea. Alexei is going on about all footballers.

[FiveTimes]

Never before has a player been so consistantly good for his club and so ******* crap for his country.

HE obviously has no pride in wearing the England shirt. **** the **** right off

What about John Barnes.... excellent for Liverpool but didn't do it at national level.

Do I dislike/hate Lampard... no, I dislike the manager for not having balls to drop him when he plays badly. There is no doubt he has ability, but for the past 18 months in an England shirt he has been average.

[AtW]

So what do you do about sponsorship deals? For example, the $90Million that Lebron James got from Nike without bouncing a ball proffessionally.

I think this is aweful that sponsors can put thier logos on shirts - the only logo on the shirt should be logo of the club and that's it!

Firstly Alexei, Lampard is well educated. Unusually for a footballer I'll admit.

Is he? What was his PhD thesis?

[snaw]

best Lampard story ever:

Lampard is being a right tit about Barton being in the England squad, won't talk to him, pass to him, all that stuff, and when Barton sat at the same table as him at breakfast he got up and moved to another one. As soon as he stood up and moved Barton called after him......."Don't worry I wasn't going to nick your breakfast you fat pr**k" and Lampard threw a hissy fit and stormed out much to the amusement of the other members of the squad.

[barry_abs]

best Lampard story ever:

you side with the violent liability with an axe-murdering brother (barton, obviously)?

football clubs are paid vaults of money so TV and fans can film/watch their TEAM.. if you cap the players salary, you endorse the board getting astonishingly wealthy and the players shortchanged.. much like the old (or current but dying) recording industry model..

i'm gutted lampard has been poo for england, i blame the whole team - manager included.. its not just about one player.. his partnership with gerrard never rocked the house, or with the german hero ballack for that matter.

[AtW]

football clubs are paid vaults of money so TV and fans can film/watch their TEAM.. if you cap the players salary, you endorse the board getting astonishingly wealthy and the players shortchanged.. much like the old (or current but dying) recording industry model..

They should drop prices for tickets for those fans that attend matches - also stop ripping people off with t-shirts and other stuff that has got totally rip off prices: clubs in the UK are pretty much insolvent as they give most of the money into players pockets, this is dead money - they don't create jobs, they don't even entertain well because those overpaid chaps develop attitude of primadonnas.

Salary cap should be world wide - made in such a way that local players playing in local clubs are allowed to have higher salary - this would encourage local talent to stay where it is. Of course Brazil, Argentina etc will be stuffed, but frankly they are not going to make anywhere near that money in their own countries anyway, so I think they have no grounds for complaint.

[_V_]

They should drop prices for tickets for those fans that attend matches - also stop ripping people off with t-shirts and other stuff that has got totally rip off prices: clubs in the UK are pretty much insolvent as they give most of the money into players pockets, this is dead money - they don't create jobs, they don't even entertain well because those overpaid chaps develop attitude of primadonnas.

Salary cap should be world wide - made in such a way that local players playing in local clubs are allowed to have higher salary - this would encourage local talent to stay where it is. Of course Brazil, Argentina etc will be stuffed, but frankly they are not going to make anywhere near that money in their own countries anyway, so I think they have no grounds for complaint.

How about this. Make it illegal for any UK football club to be a privately run/owned thing. Put all the clubs under a co-op arrangement. Each fan becomes a member when they buy season ticket. Any money made from ticket/sponsorship/merchandising goes to the club and profits are shared amongst the members.

Power to the people!

[barry_abs]

they don't even entertain well because those overpaid chaps develop attitude of primadonnas.

primadonnas don't stay overpaid for long.. if ashley cole doesn't shape up for chelsea this season he'll be offloaded and on half the money before he knows it.

thing is: ashley earnt his premium.. after Euro 2004, with class attacking play and the shutting out of ronaldo, he became considered the world's best left back.. next thing, the pultry offer from arsenal of £65K per week had him "swerving off the road".. (what a bellend, i won't be buying HIS book!)

Salary cap should be world wide - made in such a way that local players playing in local clubs are allowed to have higher salary

the only way that any club could increase their players' salary would be to bring more revenue in.. rich european clubs will never agree to capping their players and subsidising poorer clubs (in order to spread the wealth).. also the fans of european football would complain, as a percentage of their TV subscription / turnstile money would be going to clubs they'll never see play, or want to see play.. directors / owners would complain.. corruption would be inevitable.. the politics involved would become horrendus!

[barry_abs]

Secondly, it isn't your money paying those footballers, so why should their high wages worry you?

however, it IS his money paying the woefully-underpaid-doctors-saving-lives he mentioned.. most people would agree that good doctors should be on triple the money.. would most people, however, accept the fat tax bill increase?

it doesn't matter WHO gets rich, cynical, depressed people will be on their case.. if it were doctors on £100K per week, GUARANTEED - they'd be getting EXACTLY THE SAME FLACK.