WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU, FOOTBALL?

"" I remember it being a shilling to get into Anfield. As a teenager, it was forty pence.At that time, my dad was earning forty quid a week - fifty if he was lucky. This is one hundred times what I was paying to go the match. My dad was an average working man.Now, a ticket costs fifty pounds. The average working man might only be on 500 pounds a week.Instead of it being a hundreth of your dad's salary, it's a tenth.Football has become like opera!!!!Ian Callaghan was probably on around 150 pounds a week - three times my dad's wage. Footballers then were still superstars but they felt blessed they were earning three times the common man's wage.Now you are talking four hundred, five hundred times the common man's wage!!!!!""

John Coleman, Accrington Stanley manager