Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
£50k week Nicklas Bendtner gives us all a sobering insight into the life and trevails of being a multi-millionaire Premiership footballer:
"There is a price to pay as well for us players. Personally, I think I pay a big price with my body, my time and with never being able to have privacy when I am out and around other people.
‘I am not complaining. It’s a natural part of being a professional footballer but it is definitely a price to pay when, for example, you can’t go out to eat in a restaurant with your girlfriend without photographers chasing you. The biggest thing I miss because of football is that I really, really love to go on a skiing holiday but as long as I have my career, I can’t do that because of the risk of being injured.
‘That is one thing that has been taken away from me by football that other young people can do. They have the freedom to decide how to spend their time. I see friends doing interesting things with their lives but I have always made football my first priority.
'We spend an incredible amount of time, energy and focus on our football career. When we are not training or playing matches, we still have to live for football."
Fair play to Nicklas for coming out and revealing this. I honestly didn't realise the sacrifices, such as skiing holidays, that these poor guys have to make in order to have a career in football. The next time I find myself rolling my eyes at the millions and millions being paid to suffocatingly average footballers in wages, I'll have cause now to stop and remember the fact that they can never go skiiing, ride a motorbike, go bungee-jumping or ride an ill-disciplined wild mustang on a sheep-herding trip to Arizona.
Food for thought isn't it.
"There is a price to pay as well for us players. Personally, I think I pay a big price with my body, my time and with never being able to have privacy when I am out and around other people.
‘I am not complaining. It’s a natural part of being a professional footballer but it is definitely a price to pay when, for example, you can’t go out to eat in a restaurant with your girlfriend without photographers chasing you. The biggest thing I miss because of football is that I really, really love to go on a skiing holiday but as long as I have my career, I can’t do that because of the risk of being injured.
‘That is one thing that has been taken away from me by football that other young people can do. They have the freedom to decide how to spend their time. I see friends doing interesting things with their lives but I have always made football my first priority.
'We spend an incredible amount of time, energy and focus on our football career. When we are not training or playing matches, we still have to live for football."
Fair play to Nicklas for coming out and revealing this. I honestly didn't realise the sacrifices, such as skiing holidays, that these poor guys have to make in order to have a career in football. The next time I find myself rolling my eyes at the millions and millions being paid to suffocatingly average footballers in wages, I'll have cause now to stop and remember the fact that they can never go skiiing, ride a motorbike, go bungee-jumping or ride an ill-disciplined wild mustang on a sheep-herding trip to Arizona.
Food for thought isn't it.