Footballers get too much money. Now I have said this many times before (possibly not here) and I will say it may times again, but I make this point not out of jealousy, but out a want for recognition to those who deserve it. Let us take an infantry soldier working for the British army. Now he earns say 20,000 pounds a year (plus housing etc (please note this is a guess)). He is very good at his job, he has spent years training, learning the drills, the equipment, the tactics and generally getting himself fit. His job will force him into early retirement, quite possibly leave him with some form of trauma (nightmares at least) and may even lead to his death while doing his job. This man must get his job right all the time, he can not fail, other lives depend on him. Now let us look at our footballer. He gets the same amount of money, just he gets it per week. He has to quite fit, he has to earn his money with maybe 2 games of 90 minuets a week playing a game of which is so simple is requires a patch of grass, 4 poles, a ball and some lines and of which the rules can be explained on a single sheet of paper. Yet this footballer screws up all the time in his job, he misses the ball 5% of the time, and almost all of his shots miss. How unjust is the world we live in that the people defending our country, defending our “beautiful game” are worth less to us than a bunch of over paid, under worked, unskilled idiots? I think we should scrap football, it is a pointless sport which has done nothing of good for anyone. I would like to see the billions they get in salaries, that are spend of building to play in, that are spent on people to win them their court battles to be sent to Africa and Asia in the form of tools, food and water. But ah yes, I speak with the voice of common sense, and where has that ever got anyone?