Football Millionaires - this nurses programme- on C4 now

[trueblue]

Fantastic scheme that this Professor came up with - but to go into it seemingly having done no research on football is disrespectful I think.

You can't ask someone for tens of thousand pounds if you can't even be bothered to find out what they look like in advance - that takes about 15 seconds on google.

 

[Billy the Fish]

Is that the one where they asked for a weeks wages from premiership footballers?
I thought it was a bit off, I know they earn loads but that isn't their fault. Why not spread it over a numer of high payed professions, everyone always picks on footballers but theres plenty of other loaded people out there, and how does he know they don't give to charity anyway

 

[Starry]

I think it's utter disgusting and if I were a footballer I would tell her to take a hike which I think half of them did? I think she only got 250ish onboard?

I think it's completely rude and disrespectful.

The nurses are not paid enough that's a fact but begging to another industry in this way is disgusting.

 

[trueblue]

She wanted them to give up one day's pay.

She's coming out of it a bit better as the show goes on, and it's proving there are a lot of decent players out there - once you can get past the tossers that 'protect' them.

I saw some of the publicity slagging off players that the Mirror ran - to be fair, she seems as pissed off about that as anyone as it made the campaign much harder just as it was taking off.
Doesn't seem to have been a deliberate ploy as it seemed at the time.

 

[bigc]

The nurses are not paid enough that's a fact but begging to another industry in this way is disgusting.

no problem in those cretin like comedians begging to us for such great causes as comic relief then?

 

[Starry]

I have problems with all manor of things!

 

[trueblue]

She got 255, including some players from every Premiership club.

Considering she's supposed to be one of 'the world's most inspirational women', it's a shame most of her strategy seemed to revolve around acting a bit dizzy and wearing short skirts.

 

[Starry]

She got 255, including some players from every Premiership club.

Considering she's supposed to be one of 'the world's most inspirational women', it's a shame most of her strategy seemed to revolve around acting a bit dizzy and wearing short skirts.

No she didn't. Not one player from Chelsea or Middlesbrough gave up a days wage. Their clubs made donations to spare the underpaid players parting with their money.

 

[Goodfella]

I have problems with all manor of things!

Being a Leeds fan must surely be one of them.

 

[Starry]

Not sure how or why Rangers and Celtic got included.

Arsenal – 3 players Theo Walcott, Thierry Henry, and Justin Hoyte
Aston Villa – 2 players Steven Davis, Ashley Young
Blackburn - 23 players including David Bentley and Morten Gamst Pedersen
Bolton - 22 players including Nicky Hunt and Kevin Nolan
Celtic – 1 player Neil Lennon
Charlton – 8 players Matt Holland, Luke Young, Hermann Hreidarsson, Ben Thatcher, Darren Ambrose, Darren Bent, Marcus Bent, Scott Carson
Chelsea - 0 players, donation from club to Mayday for Nurses Hardship fund
Everton - 8 players on board including Alan Stubbs
Fulham – 28 players, the entire first team squad Carlos Bocanegra, Michael Brown, Jimmy Bullard, Philippe Christanval, Simon Davies, Clint Dempsey, Papa Bouba Diop, Simon Elliott, Ahmad Elrich, Adam Federici, Heiðar Helguson, Claus Jensen, Collins John, Zat Knight, Jan Laštuvka, Brian McBride, Robert Milsom, Vincenzo Montella, Antti Niemi, Elliot Omozusi, Ian Pearce, Mark Pembridge, Franck Queudrue, Tomasz Radzinski, Liam Rosenior, Wayne Routledge, Alexey Smertin, Moritz Volz
Liverpool - 12 players Craig Bellamy, Jamie Carragher, Peter Crouch, Robbie Fowler, Steven Gerrard, Mark Gonzalez, Harry Kewell, Dirk Kuyt, Jermaine Pennant, Pepe Reina, John Arne Riise, Bolo Zenden
Man City – 6 players Michael Ball, Joey Barton, Richard Dunne, Georgios Samaras, Nicky Weaver and Micah Richards
Man Utd – 2 players Gary Neville and Ryan Giggs
Middlesborough - 0 players, manager Gareth Southgate on board
Newcastle - 12 players Titus Bramble, Celestine Babayaro, Pavel Srnicek, Nicky Butt, Stephen Carr, Damien Duff, Shay Given, Stephen Harper, James Milner, Scott Parker, Peter Ramage, Nolberto Solano
Portsmouth – 1 player David James
Rangers – 2 players Gavin Rae and Barry Ferguson
Reading – 27 players, the entire first team squad Mikkel Anderson, Alan Bennett, Andre Bikey, Oliver Bozanic, Aaron Brown, Bobby Convey, Ulises de la Cruz, Kevin Doyle, Michael Duberry, Brynjar Gunnarsson, Marcus Hahnemann, Greg Halford, John Halls, James Harper, Stephen Hunt, Ívar Ingimarsson, Seol Ki-Hyeon, Dave Kitson, Leroy Lita, Glen Little, Shane Long, Péter Máté, Graeme Murty, John Oster, Nicky Shorey, Steve Sidwell, Ibrahima Sonko
Sheffield – 23 players
Tottenham – 20 players including Paul Robinson and Jermaine Defoe
Watford – 28 players, the entire first team squad including Malky Mackay
West Ham - 26 players, the entire first team squad including Nigel Reo Coker
Wigan – 1 player Arjan de Zeeuw

 

[Starry]

Being a Leeds fan must surely be one of them.

Only on Saturdays.

 

[The British National Party]

Fantastic scheme that this Professor came up with - but to go into it seemingly having done no research on football is disrespectful I think.

You can't ask someone for tens of thousand pounds if you can't even be bothered to find out what they look like in advance - that takes about 15 seconds on google.

I think you’ll find it’s f***ing disrespectful for the program to ask for players to pay the nurses when they pay their taxes and so do we. The government is to blame. They are scum. Any football player should say ‘f*** off’ and ask brown for the money. No chance!

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

Arsenal,Chelsea and Man U did a lot to help.

 

[The British National Party]

Arsenal,Chelsea and Man U did a lot to help.

Why should they, If all the professional clubs donated millions or billions then Brown would just rub his hands at the thought of the extra cash to balance the cash he’s spunked.

 

[¡Cereal Killer!]

Why should they, If all the professional clubs donated millions or billions then Brown would just rub his hands at the thought of the extra cash to balance the cash he’s spunked.

Not exactly, maybe then a few more Nurses can be trained.

I do agree though that it is a bit wrong to ask footballers to give their money to nurses though, but to be honest, I dont think to many of them will really miss the money they have given to the charity.

 

[bigc]

Not exactly, maybe then a few more Nurses can be trained.

I do agree though that it is a bit wrong to ask footballers to give their money to nurses though, but to be honest, I dont think to many of them will really miss the money they have given to the charity.

one days pay.

how much is that for you cereal killer?

why is it wrong to ask footballers for their money? they always ask us for ours in terms of season tickets, etc etc.

 

[sir danny cullip]

How will this money be distributed among nurses? Or will it not go directly to each nurse in the country?

 

[The British National Party]

one days pay.

how much is that for you cereal killer?

why is it wrong to ask footballers for their money? they always ask us for ours in terms of season tickets, etc etc.

Why don't give a donation out of your wages, you came across as the type who is generous. What’s up, don’t feel like parting with it as you pay taxes? Same as them I suppose.

 

[trueblue]

No she didn't. Not one player from Chelsea or Middlesbrough gave up a days wage. Their clubs made donations to spare the underpaid players parting with their money.

I was just going by what the script on the programme said - it was written to appear as if she'd succeeded in persuading players at every club.. a little bit of word play on their part I think.

 

[coventrygull]

Nurses pay scale

We also get extra pay to for late shifts, weekends, bank holidays and nights.

Band 1

Point 1 £11,782
Point 2 £12,177
Point 3 £12,514
Point 4 £12,853


Band 2

Point 2 £12,177
Point 3 £12,514
Point 4 £12,853
Point 5 £13,247
Point 6 £13,642
Point 7 £14,037
Point 8 £14,543
Point 9 £15,107


Band 3

Point 7 £14,037
Point 8 £14,543
Point 9 £15,107
Point 10 £15,446
Point 11 £15,897
Point 12 £16,405
Point 13 £16,799


Band 4

Point 12 £16,405
Point 13 £16,799
Point 14 £17,419
Point 15 £18,039
Point 16 £18,602
Point 17 £19,166
Point 18 £19,730


Band 5

Point 17 £19,166
Point 18 £19,730
Point 19 £20,294
Point 20 £20,970
Point 21 £21,646
Point 22 £22,266
Point 23 £22,886
Point 24 £23,789
Point 25 £24,803


Band 6

Point 23 £22,886
Point 24 £23,789
Point 25 £24,803
Point 26 £25,818
Point 27 £26,720
Point 28 £27,622
Point 29 £28,524
Point 30 £29,538
Point 31 £31,004


Band 7

Point 28 £27,622
Point 29 £28,524
Point 30 £29,538
Point 31 £31,004
Point 32 £31,906
Point 33 £32,921
Point 34 £34,048
Point 35 £35,232
Point 36 £36,416


Band 8 Range A

Point 35 £35,232
Point 36 £36,416
Point 37 £37,881
Point 38 £39,346
Point 39 £41,038
Point 40 £42,278


Band 8 Range B

Point 39 £41,083
Point 40 £42,278
Point 41 £44,420
Point 42 £46,900
Point 43 £49,381
Point 44 £50,733


Band 8 Range C

Point 43 £49,381
Point 44 £50,733
Point 45 £52,988
Point 46 £55,469
Point 47 £59,189
Point 48 £60,880


Band 8 Range D

Point 47 £59,189
Point 48 £60,880
Point 49 £63,417
Point 50 £66,517
Point 51 £69,899
Point 52 £73,281


Band 9

Point 51 £69,899
Point 52 £73,281
Point 53 £76,798
Point 54 £80,485
Point 55 £84,349
Point 56 £88,397