booing Frank Lampard

[AtW]

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!

Sounds fine by me. But this action should be done at least across whole of Europe.

[AtW]

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.

I don't think greedy Cashley is actually the biggest primadonna - but he sure is greedy person without any sense of loyalty.

Of course I don't think anything that I suggest will happen - those clubs will be first to object because they won't be able to sell players for ridiculous amounts of money, effectively the whole system is debt based on inflated "value" of players that goes up and up: it is just a matter of time before it goes tits up.

[pisces]

has anybody read frank's book?

I don't take anyone serious when they have the name Frank, neither would I read their book

[wendigo100]

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.

Where does Alexei get the impression that doctors are woefully underpaid?

[barry_abs]

it's a relative thing innit, doctors healing and saving and getting comparitive pittance for it.. that's more an NHS debate.

consultant doctors aren't underpaid.. or the specialist surgeons that treat sporting injuries..

[wendigo100]

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!

Well, power to The Big Three who already have the worldwide support with no-one else getting a look-in.

Don't encourage him. It's his soviet DNA.

[barry_abs]

it's all politics innit.. freedom to prosper organically in west european democratic, capitalist society is exactly why the spanish, italian and english leagues are rich and why so many people want to live this side of the former iron curtain.

[wendigo100]

it's all politics innit.. freedom to prosper organically in west european democratic, capitalist society is exactly why the spanish, italian and english leagues are rich and why so many people want to live this side of the former iron curtain.

That would be Alexei then.

[AtW]

Where does Alexei get the impression that doctors are woefully underpaid?

Try young doctors who need to slave away a number of years before they are allowed to be full doctors. It is the same story as with trainee lawyers - you have to slave away first few years before you qualify.

[barry_abs]

footballers 'slave away' too.. they don't walk into club academies asking for a job.. they slave away, practising and training every available opportunity to EARN the opportunity.

edit: btw, i'm definately not saying young doctors don't have it hard..