Ashes to Ashes

[Deirachel]

What befuddles me is these fine specimens of English sporting prowess, these peak professional athletes, whose service to the glorious game apparently justifies wages of hundreds of thousands of pounds a week... each!... Were mostly walking at seventy minutes and could barely manage more than a gentle jog. More effort required me thinks.

Edit: Or perhaps performance related pay.

Football/soccer doesn't hold the monopoly on the ridiculous salaries to play a game.

American Football have at least 6 players making $30 million/£24.08 million a year in base salary alone.

For example: Payton Manning
$32.5 million for a 17 week season.... $1.911 million a week (£1.228 million a week)

And, they only play approximately half the game (as either offense or defense) and have a brief breather between each play (plus T.V. time outs, regular timeouts, stoppage of play for calls). This doesn't include the bonuses for making the playoffs, making the Super Bowl, or winning the Super Bowl. Or, the endorsement contracts.

The average teacher in the US? $43,668/£28,069 per annum. Hmmmm.


Edit: Tie-breaking in Football/soccer is different depending on the League and level of the game. In FIFA, it's two 15 min periods and if no one wins, then it's a tie. In the World Cup it's two 15 min periods and then the penalty shootout. I'm not sure of the rules in question for the Scotland/England game.

[mookien]

Football/soccer doesn't hold the monopoly on the ridiculous salaries to play a game. ...

Edit: Tie-breaking in Football/soccer is different depending on the League and level of the game. In FIFA, it's two 15 min periods and if no one wins, then it's a tie. In the World Cup it's two 15 min periods and then the penalty shootout. I'm not sure of the rules in question for the Scotland/England game.

Thanks for the clarification on how ties are resolved at the different levels. As for the high salaries, it obviously pays to be a celebrity entertainer. Another example is the money payed to actors/actresses.