I'd hate to be stuck in the past, like you.
I'm currently watching the best Albion team I have ever seen in my lifetime, playing in a first class stadium, at the very top level of english football for the first time in over 30 years, holding their own against the best teams and players in the...
The wages footballers at the top level receive are obscene by any "normal" standards. But that's just the nature of the industry, its the market rate these days. All the while TV companies and corporate sponsors are falling over themselves to pour billions upon billions into the Premier League...