Comments on: Reading Subsidise Fans’ Travel, What Will Tottenham Do?

By: The Revolution

The Revolution — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:19:52 +0000

Reading have had some very poor turn outs recently for away games. They don’t know how lucky they are – my team has yet to even manage an away goal.

About Gareth Southgate; I can see his point. The whole Nurses campaign seemed to be a case of emotional blackmail targeting footballers because they are constantly in the public eye – I doubt the campaign would have raised as much if it’d focused on high earners in the city who weren’t in the public eye.

By: Thomas Dunmore

Thomas Dunmore — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:47:03 +0000

That’s a good point, Alex, though let’s not forget two things — 1) you can guarantee that if, like Hamilton, Premiership players only had to compete one day a year in Britain that most of them would also live in tax havens; and 2) one aspect of the appeal of the Premiership over many other leagues in the past fifteen years (especially compared to, say, France) has been the lower taxes Britain sports on high earners.

By: alex

alex — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:17:11 +0000

Martin Samuel today wrote a welcome article in the Times today talking about how, actually, footballers contribute quite a lot to the country, what with their huge tax bills and all (at a 40% rate he reckons that Riise pays £666,000 in tax a year and that, if John Terry really does earn what Sutcliffe thinks he does, he’d be contributing £3million a year).

And then he contrasts the bile people have for John Terry with the hero worship for new Swiss tax exile, F1′s Lewis Hamilton who’s moving his affairs offshore “to get away from the pressures of fame”.