Comedian Simon Brodkin parodies a player who, as well as insulting a young kid playing football in the garden, justifies his £200,000 a week salary on the basis that he needs a new car every week before going on to mock the low salaries of NHS nurses and demands they take a pay cut.
"Our players are seen as the anti-Christ because they happen to be well-paid young men. They’re being portrayed as having no social conscience whatsoever and that’s grossly unfair," says Bobby Barnes, an official with the Professional Footballers Association."It’s as if our players are off buying gold Rolls-Royces every day. They’re not," he added in an interview with The Times.
The trouble is that all that work has been overshadowed by a public spat over money between the PFA and the Premier League and its clubs, at a time when so many workers and businesses are feeling the impact of the lockdown. "They should have been more proactive. They should have done more scenario planning including the impact on their reputation if they took various decisions."Premier League leaders Liverpool had to make an abrupt U-turn after outcry over their decision to use public funds to pay their non-playing staff whilst still paying their first team players their massive wages.
“It is time for the Premier League to stop defending the indefensible," said Julian Knight, the Conservative MP who heads the parliamentary committee covering sport.
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