doctors and footballers

[spitza]

Just been watching the news, A doctor from Norway is in Israel working non-stop to help casualties, does his pay match our so called footballers who get �150,000 a week
for about 20 hours so called work. what do you think?
Regards from a grumpy old man

[ummmm]

Did you see about the doctor who is asking his ex wife to return the kidney he donated to her because she had an affair?????

The nutter......

[Gourmander]

Who would you rather watch on a Saturday, a doctor or a footballer?

[legendis.god]

Welll thats sadly the way of the world now


For the love of money is the root of all evil


Says it all really

[Gourmander]

...says the guy who sells inflated dolls for a living...

[spitza]

By the same token who would you want operating on you
Gourmander?

[Gourmander]

Joey Barton, he's quite handy with a knife!

[ummmm]

I got the BF a blow up doll for xmas......

For a joke though.

[Davethedog]

I always wonder about people who complain about footballers salaries.

Not one penny is earned by a footballer from people who haven't contributed to that salary wether it be by susbscription, gate money or endorsement and as I always say if you don't want to don't pay it.

If any footballer gets �150k its only at most two even in the premier league most footballers earn much, much less but still a lot of money, the further down the leagues you go the less they earn and remember whatever they earn it has to last a life time.

Russell Crow get more for one film than most footballers earn in a life time so why pick on footballers

No one complains

Striesand went to the Palladium and charged �250 per ticket.

No one complained

So why pick on footballers.
Truth is that they are in the main ill educated working class boys and people are jealous


As for the Doctor he earns far in excess of a nurse or a teacher, a snitation worker or paramedic. So following your logic he is grossly overpaid. He probably earns in excess of �100,000 a year does relativly little work in comparison.

But I don't resent his his money or humanity and I don't begrudge a footballer his money, if only I had the chance.

[GEEMAC]

Some good points davethedog. The only comment I would take issue with is the oft repeated one about a footballer's career being short lived. I don't think anybody has a 'job for life' these days. I know I have had to change direction a couple of times whether through choice or not and even lower league players earn more a week than I ever have.
As you say though, it is all about supply and demand. Personally, I've gone off football recently for a number of reasons, (the money, the cheating, the petulance, constantly blaming the ref, the rise in crowd disturbances etc.) and I have a feeling that the Premier League bubble is about to burst soon.

[Ethel]

British doctors do the same:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7761994.stm

http://www.msf.org/msfinternational/invoke.cfm ?component=article&method=full_html&objectid=3 69B9940-E018-0C72-0991EE9DB4FA44B2

Doctors and nurses from all over the world work for MSF - it is a very worthwhile charity
http://www.msf.org/

[Davethedog]

GEEMAC I agree you have voted with your feet.

I hope your right about football I would love to see it taken down a peg or two.

[GEEMAC]

I've always loved football Dave but one day my daughters asked me what I liked about it and I found it very difficult to think of a 'good and noble' reason. It can of course still be very exciting and entertaining esp. the World Cup. I have watched the England games this season and very enjoyable they were too but I haven't watched MOTD once this season and I can't say I miss it. I still enjoy a kick-about from time to time and watch a bit of parks football if I'm in a park where football is being played but I am pleased to say that not a single one of my hard earned pennies went up in smoke with Ronaldo's Ferarri (sp?) He could of course buy another one with this week's pay packet whereas I doubt if I could afford the petrol to run it for the week. But hey ho, I'm not the 'world's best footballer'. I wouldn't wish football (or Ronaldo) harm any more than I would wish harm on any of my former loves (apart from the first wife...haha) but it just seems inevitable, particularly in the current climate, that the whole house of cards could soon come tumbling down.