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Or maybe we could adopt Danny Baker's idea (originally aimed at the players, but works for both) of them all lining up in the centre circle after home games with wheelbarrows and their salaries given to them in cash while the crowd are still there and able to react accordingly.

The lap of 'honour' after the Villa game will be...interesting.
Considering we've had players complaining about being slaves because they couldn't get out of one multi-million quid contract to move to an even bigger one, breaking their contract in the process, I doubt we'll entice them into publicly displaying how much they are robbing for their declining talents.

One of the greatest footballers in English history has left just £115,415 in his will – less than half the £300,000 that Wayne Rooney earns in a week. Sir Tom Finney, who died aged 91 in February (2014), spent his entire career at Preston North End, scoring 220 goals from 1946 until 1960. He also won 76 caps as an England forward, scoring 30 goals for his country and playing in three World Cups from 1950 to 1958. He supplemented his meagre wages – capped at £20 a week for all footballers until 1961 – by working as a plumber, earning himself the nickname ‘the Preston Plumber’.