Why Footballers are paid too much

You only have to look at the performance of England in the World cup in South Africa to know that footballers are paid too much.

Their first game they draw 1 all against the USA and football (Soccer) is not American football that their rivals are used to playing in America. Their next game, they draw nil with Algeria. What we should realise is that most of these footballers are paid a fortune and are millionaires. If the normal person became a millionaire by doing their job they would be so confident that they were the best of the best that they would go out there and give an unbeatable, confident, performance. Instead, with England, the reverse happens.

So why does England perform so badly? Well because football clubs pay a fortune to get the best, the trouble is that there is just no good players around so what they end up doing is paying a fortune for some substandard player that in any other decent footballing nation they would not touch them with a barge pole. The players themselves undoubtedly know this when they see the performance of their international counterparts and this gives them the mentality on the pitch that they are not the best of the best, millionaire players, they are lucky to become millionaires for dancing around for an hour and half.

In 1966 England won the World Cup. The wages were nothing like what they were now but instead it was all about heart and wanting to do the best for one's country. All of that has gone and instead we have a sport ruled by overpriced players that are lucky and lack real talent by international standards.