Foodbank at Bolton Wanderers

[dandywarhol]

Sad state of affairs
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48268140

[cardiff55]

Terrible for those staff, not being paid for 2 months, and will probably be 3 shortly. You could probably stand it better when you are a footballer earning 000s a week.

A bit like Swansea are doing by giving everyone, including the coaching staff, redundancy notices. No wonder Potter will be out of there at the first opportunity.

[blue matt]

this is where a " EPL tax " would work, these players earning £100 K ( plus ) a week pay a small % into a pot that when teams hit the hard times ( and i dont mean over spending etc etc ) the background staff are taken care of, even lower league players who are not earning the world

the top end of the game as so much money floating around, surely they can take care of the lower end

[B. Oddie]

this is where a " EPL tax " would work, these players earning £100 K ( plus ) a week pay a small % into a pot that when teams hit the hard times ( and i dont mean over spending etc etc ) the background staff are taken care of, even lower league players who are not earning the world

the top end of the game as so much money floating around, surely they can take care of the lower end

Football with Socialist sympathies. I like it.

[splott parker]

this is where a " EPL tax " would work, these players earning £100 K ( plus ) a week pay a small % into a pot that when teams hit the hard times ( and i dont mean over spending etc etc ) the background staff are taken care of, even lower league players who are not earning the world

the top end of the game as so much money floating around, surely they can take care of the lower end

Quite correct about lower league players, my son in law is an ex pro, started with Wolves, didn’t figure in their first team but made over 300 league appearances for Halifax, Darlington & Bradford City. Ended up playing for Hibernians in Malta, he and my daughter still live there & struggle by. He delivers water around the island & is definitely not sitting on a football made fortune. By the way he regards Peter Thorne as his cleverest, toughest opponent.