Manchester United, the richest football club in the world who can pay outrageous salaries to its players have accepted £30,000 in lottery money to increase the health and fitness of its staff. Do you think the money could have gone to a much more deserving cause like a Children’s hospice.\n\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/4931486.stm
210553
give it to rangers they are a bit skint !!! only joking .give money to local groups for community to use
557286
Maybe they're worse than the Togo players, asking for too much money. \n\nRefs got paid $40k per game, apparently ... but maybe they wanted more? hehe ... \n\nAustralia should've got a second penalty against Croatia, the second handsball inside box was clear .. duh ... \nHad they got the second penalty and made it, I didn't need to sweat that much this morning ... lucky my heart's strong enough to watch the drama. Go Aussie!
588245
Yes they are. People can say all they want about physical starin and whatever, well sorry but they chose to do that. It is physically and mentally strenuous to do a lot of real jobs but people don't get paid thousands of pounds a week. All "celebrities" are overpaid. These footballers do nothing but play a game. Something a small child can do.What do they really do for their money? No more than anyone else wanting a good fitness regime. So they only "work" twice a week, do they. Even if they have to retire in their 30s, they will retire with more money than anyone wit ha proper job who retires at age 65.  There are people who have to go through physical, emotional, academical training to get where they are and still get paid less in a year than footballers get in a week. As for the publicity, if they don't want it they can either not play the game in the first place or they can just avoid it. Rugby players managed that when England won that. Also, saying about the publicity and everything, that's like saying you want to be a childminder but you don't want to work with children. You know the job before you go into it so there is no excuse. Nothing can possibly justify the amount these people get paid. They may entertain a few but I would be more entertained at my son's school sports day.
80901
I'd say not the much, because all the money in those cases go to the players! LOL!
511626
Nothing.  And think what £300 could do for a good charity.  Don't be greedy -think of the needy
448362
Man Utd look as if they have the bit between their teeth this season. They are playing very well and have very important players hitting form such as Rooney, Ronaldo and Scholes. Above all Giggs is playing out of his skin. Now they have their noses in front they will be hard to overtake. Obviously the games between Man Utd and Chelsea will be crucial but I think United will get something out of these games. At least it makes for a more interesting season.
213624
Ok heres my view. Celebrities I don't think are over paid. Movie stars are definately not. The work they put into there role is amazing. As for footballers I believe they are stupidly over paid. When you think that people play football for fun the majority of football stars today are only in it for the money and don't even play that great. It get ridiculous, especially if they are supposed to big a fan of the team they are playing for yet want to demand as much money out of there team as possible. Come on the only good players I know are Van Nistleroy, Henry, and Terry.
529145
Well, they're winning one nil at the moment - so it's looking good for them!\n\nToon Tigg is wrong - they put a decent side out tonight, even Rooney is playing.\n\nFinal remark:-  They did it !!!!
74657
MAN UTD is better than all the other teams....they proved it...they have more fan base than the others can think of..plus man u had the best of the best and now still has the best players in the squad...
146178
I think it is helping the premiership. It will step up the quality of players in the premier league which can only be a good thing! Their current form shows you can't buy the premiership as they have been slipping up alot lately. Unfortunately their endless spending will take talents from decent european teams lowering the challenge in the UEFA champions league.
562958
It seemed to me like it was nothing but hot air once again from FIFA. They messed up the allocation as well. Apparantly a figure of around 10% per game is all the actual supporting fans of their respective teams allocation while the rest of the tickets have all gone to corporate sponsors and German nationals.\nThe idea of having personal information and proof on each ticket was an attempt to cut out the black market trade in the tickets but they are not enforcing the idea at all making the whole thing look like a joke. Well done FIFA!
338164
actually ppl here don't want to take football as a profession.\ngovernment is not spending enough money on football and whatever budget is kept for it, goes to corruption.
513582
I quite like Man U. That's coming from a Spurs Fan. They have an excellent youth system. Not like Arsenal who buy youth and Chelsea who buy everyone who isn't nailed down. Man U keep things traditional and are bringing through the future of English Football unlike Chelsea who are crippling the English game. It's good we are seeing the cream of the crop in the premiership but not all in one team. And spending 20 million plus on players and leaving them to rot on the bench or the reserves.
546085
WHERE WOULD YOU CAP IT? HIBS,HEARTS ETC WOULD WANT IT CAPPED AT SAY 5 GRAND,CELTIC ETC WOULD WANT IT CAPPED AT SAY 15-20 GRAND, NO BIG WAGES =NO BIG PLAYERS= LESS FANS=LESS REVENUE. I SAY KEEP IT OPEN.
496905
le problème c'est que le foot est le sprt le plus pratiqué sur la planète soit plusierus centaines de millions de licenciés (sasn compter ceux qui pratique chez eux ou jorky ou tennis ballon..). sur tout ces millions de personne qui paye une licence (qui achète également un équipement) plus tous le spassionnés qui vont au stade et qui achète des produits dérivés et bien sur toutes cesrentrées d'argent il y a au monde à peine 2000 footballeurs qui gagnent vraiment de l'argent (soit - de 1 sur un 100000 de pratiquant). tu as donbc plus de chance de bien gaganer ta vie dasn un autre métier que celui ci.\nde plus les footballeurs qui gagnent cet argent le font entre 18 pour les plus jeunes et 34 voir 36 pour certains gardiens soit max 18 ans (contre 40 ans pour les autres ).Enfin ces personnes ont toutes commencés un travail de titan depuis l'age de 11 ans et tous les jours sans interruptions (en tous cas à leur niveau car se sont tous des athlètes.)
600375
You make a great point. Club football is their day to day living. It is about money and they have to live up to their contracts or lose them. Country, well that's about heart and pride and to me it would always come first. Australia has suffered from this problem in the past, with International clubs they play for not releasing them or qualifiers or other International games in case of an injury that would impede or stop them fulfilling their obligations to their contracted club. It's a pretty sad situation. I think it's more of a problem for countries who are smaller or have no political influence in the football arena. It would be really sad to see club football become so important that country meant little or nothing. If that ever happened, goodbye World Cup Soccer. It would cease to exist.
248545
Tired of people bringing up this point. Yes, they did deserve it. Even if you buy the best players in the world, doesnt mean they have to play together. They could all hate each other.\n\nChelsea bought the guys that they needed and they played as a team, which all champions do. Besides, you better not be a manchester united or a new york yankees fan. They aint much better.