Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Prem aces pay sickener
Stars earn more in week than stadium staff do in 20 years
PREMIER League clubs are paying players more in a week than stadium workers would earn in 20 years, it is claimed. The 20 clubs in England’s top football tier raked in a combined turnover of £3.6billion last season. Pressure group Citizens UK gave examples of the “grotesque inequality”, citing the reported £290,000 a week that Manchester United striker Paul Pogba earns.
It then produced an advert for kitchen staff at Old Trafford on £7.05 an hour, the minimum wage for workers aged 21 to 24. The group wants Premier League clubs to pay the “real” Living Wage of £8.45 an hour, or £9.75 in London.
Only Chelsea and Everton are accredited with the Living Wage Foundation, which runs the A WOMAN drags her child along a street on a lead in front of stunned shoppers.
The CCTV footage from Liverpool city centre went viral online and police are probing. But the unnamed woman has told local media she is not a “bad mum” to her four-year-old son.
She said: “My son has autism, he has meltdowns and throws himself on the floor. What I am doing in that video is the only way I can move him. He just drops to the floor like a sack of spuds.” scheme. This means all their third party firms must also commit.
However, the operator of West Ham’s stadium has pledged to join and Tottenham Hotspur says it will also do so at its new stadium.
Other clubs pay the wage but do not insist that contractors do.
Manchester United said: “We’ve many variations of contracts.”