PFA chief Taylor slams UK government for singling out footballers

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Premier League footballers were unfairly asked by the British government to take a paycut during the coronavirus outbreak when hedge-fund managers ...

Premier League footballers were unfairly asked by the British government to take a paycut during the coronavirus outbreak when hedge-fund managers and bankers were not subjected to similar demands, players' union chief Gordon Taylor has said.

"I find it quite extraordinary that government doesn't realise - and it should do because of what the game puts back into the economy - the money that football spends on its community initiatives, the tax it pays," Taylor said on beIN SPORTS' Keys & Gray Show. Taylor himself has donated 500,000 pounds to the players' fund while members of the PFA executive team made a separate one million pound donation.

 

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