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How does it compare with todays prices and wages.
I wonder what players were paid that season? I went to a talk with Len Ashurst/Gary Bennett a canny few years ago now at The Royal British Legion in Silksworth and he'd brought a huge contract sheet with all the players names/wages/bonuses etc. I didn't get a photo of it and I can't recall much now as I'd been talking with Ashurst looking at it as I'd had a few drinks. It would be interesting to see it again. I've always had it in my memory that I saw Stan Cummins on summit like £250 a week with a £50 goal bonus and Gordon Armstrong on a pittance but I'm probably making it up and I've forgotten the rest of players info over the yearsThose seat prices we should of had the best players in the league
I wonder what players were paid that season? I went to a talk with Len Ashurst/Gary Bennett a canny few years ago now at The Royal British Legion in Silksworth and he'd brought a huge contract sheet with all the players names/wages/bonuses etc. I didn't get a photo of it and I can't recall much now as I'd been talking with Ashurst looking at it as I'd had a few drinks. It would be interesting to see it again. I've always had it in my memory that I saw Stan Cummins on summit like £250 a week with a £50 goal bonus and Gordon Armstrong on a pittance but I'm probably making it up and I've forgotten the rest of players info over the years
£675 a week then but showing that it's closer to the working man than now as I already knew. Earlier @Roy greenwoods beard mentioned a headline stating that Bryan Robson was getting his wages doubled (LINK) from £450 to £900 going to Man Utd in 1981 so that was about £46K a year.I audited Birmingham City's pension fund in the mid-80's. At that time Howard Gayle was their highest paid player on £35,000 per year. To put that into context, i was getting over half that as an audit manager.
That when Football was competitive & equal...everyone could win the league but greed took over football thats when it started I blame Liverpool and Man Utd & ArsenalLook at how close the prices are across the 4 league too. The Mags season ticket was £36 to our £60, no wonder they got more fans back then, they were practically giving tickets away!
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Wouldn't have been many clubs with a better record in football than Sunderland at the timeMentioned above. Prices across all 4 divisions were pretty much the same, but strange we were at the upper end of the prices.
One of the cheapest in the whole football league, the Mags.Look at how close the prices are across the 4 league too. The Mags season ticket was £36 to our £60, no wonder they got more fans back then, they were practically giving tickets away!
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I audited Birmingham City's pension fund in the mid-80's. At that time Howard Gayle was their highest paid player on £35,000 per year. To put that into context, i was getting over half that as an audit manager.
Look at how close the prices are across the 4 league too. The Mags season ticket was £36 to our £60, no wonder they got more fans back then, they were practically giving tickets away!
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Look at how close the prices are across the 4 league too. The Mags season ticket was £36 to our £60, no wonder they got more fans back then, they were practically giving tickets away!
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£675 a week then but showing that it's closer to the working man than now as I already knew. Earlier @Roy greenwoods beard mentioned a headline stating that Bryan Robson was getting his wages doubled (LINK) from £450 to £900 going to Man Utd in 1981 so that was about £46K a year.
Now these days a player on £100k will be paid £5 million in a season. A working man on £50K salary working for 50 years would earn £2.5. Even after tax, a player on £100k probably gets more than the working man, so basically 1 season getting £100k is worth a working man's lifetimes earnings! It's even worse if you look at those on mega money but even the plodders will soon be earning £100K in the Premier League as the average is going up yearly. It was over £50K in 2017 - Premier League average weekly wage passes £50,000, says new study
and Man Utd;s average is $8.6m here
English Premier League salary 2018/19 | Statista
This is why I slowly lost the love of football over the years that I once had as watching players putting on the red n white stripes getting £xx,000's a weelk yet not giving 100%!