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February 18th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Alex Gore
Last updated at 10:37 AM on 18th February 2012
England legend Gary Lineker has slammed footballers’ massive wages and said they should not be paid more than nurses and teachers – despite earning a whopping £2m a year at the BBC.
The Match of the Day presenter argued it is impossible to justify Premier League salaries when stars earn more in a week than key workers do in year.
Slammed: Lineker, left, with wife Danielle, said football stars like Wayne Rooney, right, who gets £250,000 a week, should not be paid more than key workers
The former England captain, who also hosts the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year and is due to front its Olympic coverage this summer, believes many secretly feel ashamed but would never admit it.
He told The Daily Mirror: “When I was playing, the gap in wages for players and fans wasn’t as big but you can never justify it – even in my day – and I would never try to. We are in the the entertainment business and we all know if you are top of the tree you get big money.
Cut: Lineker, left, may follow his Match of the Day co-star Alan Hansen, right, with a pay drop
Premier League Pay Packages
Wayne Rooney, Manchester United – £250,000 a week
Yaya Toure, Manchester City – £250,000 a week
Carlos Tevez, Manchester City – £220,000 a week
John Terry, Chelsea – £200,000 a week
Fernando Torres, Chelsea – £200,000 a week
Teacher – £30,000 a year
Nurse – £23,500 a year
“Those of us who have been in it are the fortunate ones but we understand that we probably don’t deserve it as much as the nurses or teachers. No one is going to come out and say in public I don’t deserve the money.”
A Premier League footballer earns on average £780,000 while a nurse takes home £23,500 and a teacher £30,000.
Among the highest earners are Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney, who receives £250,000 a week, and Manchester City’s Carols Tevez, who gets £220,000.
Lineker – who is thought to have earned more than £3m from advertising Walkers crisps – said he may follow co-star
Alan Hansen in taking a pay cut.
He also refuses to grumble about the near
500-mile round trip he has to make from his £2.6m Surrey mansion to the
Match of the Day studio in Salford, since the move from London last
year.
He said: “We are living in difficult
times, there are a lot of people out of work, am I going to stand there
and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.”
Minted: Chelsea’s Fernando Torres, left, picks up £200,000 a week, while Manchester City star Carlos Tevez, right, gets £220,000
When Lineker, who scored 48 goals for
his country, was sold by his home town club Leicester City to champions
Everton in 1985 for £800,000, the average weekly earnings in the top
flight was £1,000.
By the time he left Tottenham for Japan in 1992, it was nearly double that.
In 1961, Fulham’s Johnny Haynes became the first player to earn £100 a week following the abolition of the £20 a week wage cap.
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But he’s right, isn’t he? Or do you really think it’s OK to get (notice I didn’t say “earn”)
200 grand for kicking a ball?
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It is easy for him to say that now he has set himself up financially for the rest of his life.
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Footballers do deserve more than nurses. Anyone who disagrees got a U in GCSE maths and A Level Economics
– Straight Talker, Plymouth, 18/02/2012 10:47
Then why do clubs have such big debts? They make losses!!
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Footballers do deserve more than nurses. Anyone who disagrees got a U in GCSE maths and A Level Economics
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Footballers are paid far to much. All they do is kick a bag of wind around the pitch, whilst squaddies face death, Police face violent thugs? We have it all wrong, and it won’t change because the ruling elite and super rich who make huge amounts of money out of football are not going to change their gravy train.
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Perhaps you should start your own show Gary. And have ball-kickers on as guests every week.. You could call the show.. ‘Hypocrite of the day’. Or perhaps ‘Thug of the day’?
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To be fair to Gary, in his trade, he needed his feet not his brain. It is not is fault if society has placed people like so high with such big salary. Sometimes he is losing it but what do we expect ?
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I do totally agree with him but what a hypocrite.
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Money ill-spent by the BBC–he just isn’t worth a quarter of the sum!!!!!!
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Bet him and Edwina could have a really fun dinner discussion over champagne and caviar at their multi million pound houses .
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