LONDON (REUTERS) - Premier League footballers were unfairly asked by the British government to take a paycut during the coronavirus outbreak when hedge-fund managers and bankers were not subjected to similar demands, players' union chief Gordon Taylor has said.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
LONDON - Premier League footballers were unfairly asked by the British government to take a paycut during the coronavirus outbreak when hedge-fund managers and bankers were not subjected to similar demands, players' union chief Gordon Taylor has said.
"I find it quite extraordinary that government doesn't realise - and it should do because of what the game puts back into the economy - the money that football spends on its community initiatives, the tax it pays," Taylor said on beIN SPORTS' Keys & Gray Show. Premier League players, facing pressure to accept wage cuts during the outbreak, have since launched a fund - their own collective player initiative - to raise money for National Health Service charities to help tackle the crisis.
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