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Have Sky jacked up the commercial licence recently then ?? Seems to be something of a growing trend. Sky (and ITV) have lost the Champions League coverage next season to BT Sports, who will have exclusive rights. Both the pubs I know still have so far retained BT, so they'll be getting some...

Yes, I think you're right. The two pubs I know who've binned it are *roughly* the same size, and both said about it being £1,100 a month so there's probably is a set tariff as per the floorspace. Well its a balancing act, you'll have the regulars who will go regardless, but you need plenty of...

As a slight aside, I know two pubs in Portslade which have recently binned Sky Sports because of the crippling price, which apparently is £1,100 a month. Real chicken-and-egg situation, as without Sky, the replica shirt brigade turning up will dwindle massively (not entirely a bad thing), but...

DEPRESSING isn't it :down: But that's why they're still on circa £70k a week, and ( I assume) you're not. You may think they don't measure up particularly well against their peers, and often you'd be right. But they're still amongst the top 0.01% of people who are good enough to play at the...

Yup, exactly my point. We constantly judge players based on how they perform against other fellow professionals, and viewed through that prism, some will look bang average, out of their depth, and often complete shite. But compared with the likes of us, they're still on another planet. We're...

You're missing the point. I'm not saying he's one of the best players in the world amongst his peers. But he IS one of the elite 0.01% of human beings on this planet who plays football well enough to be able to earn an INCREDIBLY lucrative living from it, as well as represent his country. Of the...

And ? We can all pretend otherwise, but these players are still a WORLD away from what most of us could ever even dream of being with a football at our feet.

Depends who you're comparing him with. He's not a top player if you're comparing him with the obvious world superstars, but he's been good enough to rise to a level where he's spent much of his career in the top division in England, and he's an international. Its easy to label players as being...

It IS obscene what players at the top level are paid. But when Sky and Barclays and various worldwide sponsors are pouring billions into the game to buy the product, then where else is that money inevitably going to end up ? It'll go to the performers who everyone is paying to see. Ideally...

Don't see much wrong with this. Football is a billion pound industry at the top level, so it stands to reason that the footballers playing at that level are going to be richly rewarded. They are the top 0.01% in the country who are good enough to play at that level, so as a result they get given...