As has been mentioned elsewhere, the 'Appendices running to 500 pages' will undoubtably have included his contract for starters, which could easily have run to a large chunk of that. Throw in a few other legal bits and pieces, and you might be left with far, far less. We're not actally talking...
To be fair, you are both right here. Technically, of course, it's teaboy, who is right. Football clearly IS subject to the same employment laws as any other industry.
However, there is merit in Billy's statement too - that "football doesn't OPERATE like businesses". This isn't to say that the...