REUTERS: 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. "Footballers have reached the top of a mountain that has took a long, long time to climb and they get what they deserve."Premier League players, facing pressure to accept wage cuts during the outbreak, have since launched a fund - their own collective player initiative - to raise money for National Health Service charities to help tackle the crisis.
Taylor said footballers' careers are short, with an average span of eight years, and even though players were willing to give up some of their income, they did not want to let club owners keep it.
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