Quote Originally Posted by blue matt View Post
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.