Taking the smeg

I don't know if you've heard, but apparantly the country seems to having some sort of financial troubles at the moment! You can tell because everyone on the news is rambling on about it. It's interesting, from my point of view at least, that the economy is apparantly in a recession, and yet absolutely everywhere I look prices are plummeting! Petrol is down about 20p over the last 3 months, ASDA and the other big stores are still undercutting each other at every opportunity, in a seemingly desperate attempt to go bankrupt first.

So it seems from the point of view of the average consumer, the credit crunch is really positive! At least, as long as you don't want to sell a house or a car. Because prices are at an all time low, in just 10,000 miles supercars worth £100,000 are losing 80% of their value. That's £80,000 lost in just one year! On the plus side, if you're buying cars and houses, then its a golden age!

But to get onto the point of this blog, the sport we all know as "football" is really starting to take the piss. Manchester City are said to be offering £100 million to AC Milan to buy this "Kaka" fellow, and in turn are planning to give him half a million quid a week. Half a million a week!! That's almost enough to buy a "hearty" American lunch! And I do worry about the effect this is all having. I mean, I have nothing against sports people such as Wayne Giggs and Phillip Rooney being paid lots of money, they do have a very hard job. In the case of footballers its intensive training every single day, plus 90 minutes of crunch time when you're expected to perform, plus helping run soccer schools, coaching younger players, you have to stick to a strict diet/fitness program... but £500k a week?

Let's put that in context. Kaka, if he comes to Manchester City and earns this wage, will be able to buy FOUR Aston Martin's each week. If he saves up for 14 days he'll be able to buy a Bugatti Veyron. What do you even DO with all that money? Couldn't it be better spent?

So I think the solution to these "taking the piss" sums of money is very simple. Ban footballers from using it. Or maybe not the players, just their clubs. All they ever seem to do is give each other money for players, these guys have their own little economy within the walls of their fancy stadiums. So I reckon instead of wasting proper money, they should all just use Disney money. Or the stuff you play monopoly with. Give Kaka £50 for the shopping and an Aston each week and he'll be happy enough! It'll leave a bit more for the rest of us who have to deal with REAL problems such as....not having very much money!

- Fox