The 22 players on the pitch will be watched by 50,000 fans. There'll be a few thousand corporate boxes so we'll ignore them.
There are 2 simple trivia questions
Who earns more, the 22 players or the 50,000 fans watching them?
The second question is who pays more taxes?
The nurses, sparks, zero hour workers, plumbers, doctors, teachers, police, ambulance drivers, taxi drivers etc or the 22 who run, kick, and header a ball. Its a tough question and one that every primary 2 teacher should take to their class on Monday morning.
Ok its no great surprise is it, the more you earn the better you can pay accountants to hide your earnings, so the 2nd question is a no brainer, but the first is extremely tight.
If you throw in the squad players you'll probably weigh the scales one way, likewise if you add in the winners bonuses. Note the winners get a bonus, that's like if you flip veggie burgers on a zero hour contract you get paid for turning up and then an additional amount if you actually flip a burger. That would be a much better deal! I can just imagine Harry in my local, your agent's just got you a new contract, that's minimum wage for opening the bar and standing there, you also get a winners bonus every time you serve a pint.
During the minutes silence we'll be ask to remember the dead from conflicts and if you take all the dead from WWI & WWII and you take their wages and in death pensions, you'll still not get to the figure that will be paid to the players this afternoon.
So does that mean the players are overpaid or are the fans just underpaid?
That's why we have general elections I guess.
Oh and when we leave the European Union and the limited protection the employment laws give those workers, it may get a wee tad worse.
The American style labour laws are designed to make the richer richer. Like the Uber rich need more money, or have the nous how to spend it or give it away. What saddens me is there seems such an appetite to encourage more food banks as if that's the way forward. I can see football grounds in 2 years times being the biggest food banks in the country, as if that's a solution!
It'll be the most ironic statement our society could make. 50,000 fans leaving the ground with tins of beans, tuna and other assorted goodies, gifted by some embarrassed player who got subbed in the first half and had a dressing room fine to pay of buying 50,000 tins of tuna.
I had a simple dream as a child, to pay £1million in tax. We have a duty to pay taxes to help develop our society and we have elections to make sure the tax is spent correctly and not on tax cuts for the wealthiest. If the money is earned on the fields of stanley park, it should be collected there.
Scotland will probably vote to leave the UK, England will probably vote to make the rich richer. Wales and Northern Ireland will do their own thing.
I ask only one thing?
Should 22 football players earn more than 50,000 fans?
"Should 22" is released by Deadbeat music in 2020, published by hindsight.
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