Premier League wage row risks undermining good work - UK minister

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MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - The British government's Culture Secretary, whose department has responsibility for sport, warned the game should be 'thinking very carefully about their next steps', as the row over player wage cuts rumbles on.

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The players' union, the Professional Footballers' Association , has yet to agree to a cut and argued after Friday's meeting ended without a resolution that smaller wages would reduce tax revenue for the National Health Service. "Leaving the public purse to pick up the cost of furloughing low paid workers, whilst players earn millions and billionaire owners go untouched is something I know the public will rightly take a very dim view of," wrote Dowden.

"It's especially important that a disagreement over players' wages doesn't undermine all the good work that sport - including football - is doing to help the government's efforts to tackle coronavirus.

 

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