Salaries have been cut, now scrap the season
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WHOEVER it was that suggested cover for a pandemic in Wimbledon’s insurance policy following the 2003 SARS outbreak deserves a huge public thank-you.
Tennis clubs and coaches throughout the country rely on the surplus from the
THE LAST WORD... showpiece tournament to improve facilities.
The All-england club will still suffer a hit – but it won’t be hammered half as much now thanks to that smart piece of forethought.
Someone, somewhere deserves a massive pat-on-the-back.
LET’S hope the grand- standing politicians are happy – top footballers are taking a pay cut.
The world’s a better place now that Harry Maguire, Jordan Henderson and the rest have dug deep after the threat of a tidal wave of public anger. Actually, it was overdue – but it is impossible to know how much pressure was being exerted by their union to hold firm and protect those lower down who don’t benefit from £70,000-a-week salaries.
But the players have done their bit – so can we regain
some perspective and scrap the rest of the season?
It’s now the first Sunday in April, and by this time next week more than 1,000 bodies a day will be piling up.
It’s been little short of pathetic. All the talk in football over the past week has centred around whether or not Harry Kane and his pals will hand over a few quid.
It was a subject of discussion by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport this week, with hitherto unknown MP Julian Knight attracting five minutes of fame for calling football a “moral vacuum”.
First, where’s he been for the past 30 years? Second, is that really top of the Government’s problems?
As for our national sport, we keep hearing how the season must be completed. Must it? It’s now nearing the point of obscene, this cashgrabbing desperation while the country crashes.
Of course, there are 756 million reasons why the Premier League wants the campaign to be completed – it’s the cost of the TV revenue they won’t get.
Macabre
stadium anyway? What a nonsense. Let’s take a step back from this ridiculous bubble and announce that the 2019-20 season is over.
Liverpool can be given the Premier League title. Those in the top four – or five if the case against Manchester City is upheld – can take the Champions League spots. Relegation is suspended.
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