Stop hopping, you are not kangaroos
- Thread starter CroJack
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It's one of the things that really irritates me about present day footballers. Even in the lower levels of the game, players receive salaries that ordinary work-a-day folk can only dream about. And they earn that money in the most cosseted manner imaginable with all sorts of perks thrown in by way of first class medical facilities, travel/hotels and foreign breaks etc etc.
I well remember the time when ex-Swan Mickey Conway, a really smashing young man, came to work for me after a nasty injury tragically forced him out of the game at a young age when he literally had the world at his feet (Brian Clough had approached him with a view to signing him for Forest just before he was injured).
Anyway, on the first day with Mickey, I explained to him what I wanted him to do. His eyes opened wide with horror, he gasped, took a step back and stuttered that what I was asking seemed like a lot of hard work. Of course, I've exaggerated his reaction a little
but he did use those actual words, 'that seems like a lot of hard work.' In truth, it wasn't (a stock audit in a West Wales pharmacy) but, fair play to Mickey, he knuckled down with me and did a good job. And this for remuneration that he could have earned in an hour playing football even in the lower wage scale of those days.
Of course the point is that footballers get paid handsomely to take the blows and bruises that go hand in hand with the game. If they can't handle that then they should get out of the game and do an 'ordinary' job. There's plenty out there.
I well remember the time when ex-Swan Mickey Conway, a really smashing young man, came to work for me after a nasty injury tragically forced him out of the game at a young age when he literally had the world at his feet (Brian Clough had approached him with a view to signing him for Forest just before he was injured).
Anyway, on the first day with Mickey, I explained to him what I wanted him to do. His eyes opened wide with horror, he gasped, took a step back and stuttered that what I was asking seemed like a lot of hard work. Of course, I've exaggerated his reaction a little
but he did use those actual words, 'that seems like a lot of hard work.' In truth, it wasn't (a stock audit in a West Wales pharmacy) but, fair play to Mickey, he knuckled down with me and did a good job. And this for remuneration that he could have earned in an hour playing football even in the lower wage scale of those days.Of course the point is that footballers get paid handsomely to take the blows and bruises that go hand in hand with the game. If they can't handle that then they should get out of the game and do an 'ordinary' job. There's plenty out there.