Money in football today is just plain stupid. Ok there may be stress, but I dont get why should the people who defend our coasts and maintain order be paid about £30-40,000 a year and a person who kicks a ball about for 90 minutes get THREE TIMES THAT PER WEEK! Im sorry , but it does get up my nose about the amount footballers are paid seems disproportionate to th ejob done.

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I totally agree!

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Beckham is moving to play for the LA Galaxy in MLS. He claims the reason is to promote football, but it is obvious he's going for the money. I'm total I think he's going to be earning... a million dollars a week or something silly like that. It comes to about fifty quid a minute. How ridiculous is that. And they had to persuade those in charge of the league to remove the Salary Cap so they could do it. I guess he stands more chance to play there than he does for Real Madrid, but I can't see that he had any great motivation to move other than the money. not that he needs it.

It's silly that sports people get paid so much, but so many people doing essential jobs (like nursing) barely get enough...

I completely agree. He will never get the Yanks to really accept football in th eway us Englishmen do, as a national sport and make it something that has alarge following. He could retire with contemptuos ease on what he has earned up to now, ao maybe its time for him to start to seemingly consider money less. And the other point is true, the world has gone mad is what I think.....

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where do those who pay them have the money from?

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that's totally not worth it. I would never pay 4 million $ to see a man kick a ball... that's so stpid.... *grml*

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They get the money from the huge sponsorship deals too. The big teams get millions and millions from sponsors, never mind the tickets to games, and the merchandising.

yeah, merchandising definitely has a lot to do with it - it's a great way of basically conning people out of money. i mean, football strips are a rip-off really, considering that they generally change every season. when i got my villa shirt about five years ago they promised they'd keep it for two seasons, and then lo and behold they changed it the next year. grrr! i just put up with an out-of-date shirt, cuz there was no way i was going to pay £40 for another one.

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Oooh, yes! When I went to England. I didn't go on the tour of the tower, but we had a look around. It was very interesting, and the crown jewels!! They're just so... sparkly. lol It must be worth billions! It was kinda unnerving when we had to go through many 12 inch thick airtight doors as well. We walked across the Tower bridge, and I wanted to go on the London Eye, but we were only there for a day, and we had a plane to catch to Munich.

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ah, london. i love it, though i wouldn't want to live there. i've been *thinks* 6 times now:

1 - a small group from my theatre company went to see les miserables - picnic in st james' park, shopping in covent garden, pizza hut, les mis, back to our director's brother's house to watch fellowship til 2 in the morning. still the single most enjoyable say of my life.

2 - me, my parents and my sister went to the lord of the rings film exhibition at the science musuem. it was amazing - they had tons of costumes (galadriel's dress, aragorn's ranger outfit, arwen's riding dress, legolas' costume...) and weaponry (sting, glamdring, gil-galad's spear...) and bigatures (the burnt out hobbiton mill from the vision in galdriel's mirror) etc, and me and my sis got our photos taken in gandalf's cart with the whole perspective thing so that she looked huge and i looked like a hobbit.

3 - went with my theatre company again to support our director who was running the london marathon. had to stand in the pouring rain for three hours - not fun.

4 - my family took me to see phantom for my 17th. it was amazing, although i wanted to throw something at raoul, he was so useless.

5 - went to visit the houses of parliament on a history trip and the tour was actually pretty interesting. the house of lords and the house of commons are so much smaller than you'd expect from seeing them on tv - it was so weird. however, the coolest thing was that because my friend's dad is a lord, so we got to go over to his office. it felt well weird being in a proper government building.

6 - me and three friends just randomly went for the day - went shopping in oxford street, wandered down shaftesbury avenue (theatre land) and saw a guy juggling a chainsaw and an axe while eating an apple in covent garden.

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I love London. I had such a blast when I went there last year. My friend and I got to see Phantom of the Opera preformend live and Charlie and the Choclate Factory, I mean what's better than a trip to the U.K. and Johnny Depp .

We went to the usual sites, Buckingham Palace, Tower of London, Trafalgar Square, Tower Bridge, etc. I was so happy when we went on a bus tour and right when we rode by Big Ben it chimed .

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Ihave never been to London but my best friend and I are planning to go there. But must be 18 to do. we (or at least I ) want to visit the Crow Bar (I heared about it in a docmentary) and then we want to visit the hard rock cafe and other tourist stuff. and we will sleep in a youth hostel because we really don't have money

but first we want to go to scottland for one day, maybe this summer holidays, hope we can do it

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I'd just like to add... the Underground is cool. The trains are mean though. The doors shut on me while I was trying to get my suitcase out. The doors are sooo mean.

And I'm a little confused... why do London-ers hate the Underground? Because everyone there said that the underground was wishing us luck on our voyage to the underground... people at the airport, the hotel people...

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I was born and bred in London, so its nothing special to me Just very crowded and very loud...



Oooh, me and my cousin went there! We just spent the whole time running around screaming whenever we saw anything to do with LOTR which...at a LOTR exihibtion...was rather alot...

The Underground is amusing. No offence to people visiting England, but seeing tourists lost and running around for their trains just gives us some perverse humour I was allowed to go on the trains on my own when I was 11, so the novelty has worn off...

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