Roo Selfish Git

"Aw crap, I've lost me wallet. Colleeeeeennn?!?"

So the debacle is over. After days of speculation, statements and slagging, Wazza has signed a 5 year contract with Manchester United, a mere 48 hours after suggesting his team-mates were not good enough to win anything and declaring his intention to leave the club. A load of palaver over nothing? A clever ploy by Rooney and his agent to 'bully' Ferguson into offering him an improved deal? Form your own opinions. The views of Utd. fans appear to be mixed. Some delighted he has agreed to sign a new deal (even after numerous insults shared over numerous social networking avenues. Oh how opinions change). Some not so happy, surely the most recent "Judas Escariot" of the footballing realm has his heart elsewhere, most likely at his nearest Halifax Branch? For me, one thing is frighteningly clear. Money is undoubtedly ruining football....and the lack of it is ruining the average Joe's of British and Irish society.

Rooney's new contract is reportedly worth £200,000 a week. Yaya Toure, £220,000/week. John Terry, £135,000/week. Christiano Ronaldo, £180,000/week. Rio Ferdinand, £120,000/week. Manchester City paid Inter Milan £23 million for Mario Balotelli during the summer. He demanded a £180,000/week contract, and so far this season has played 33 fine minutes of football for the club. That, my friends, is a £ per minute figure that I can not even bring myself to calculate.

Meanwhile, new analysis released today suggests that three quarters of a million public sector workers could lose their jobs as a result of the Government's spending review. Family home's are being repossessed as couples cannot afford their mortgage. More young people than ever before are migrating to pastures new in search of a better life (or if your Alex Ferguson, you see a cow in another field and think it's better than the one you have in your own). Graduates are working anywhere that will employ them, which in turn deals a blow to those who would have usually taken those jobs. Young parents struggling to make ends meet are facing the daunting prospect of child benefit cuts. Homelessness is more prevalent than ever before. All in all, we're in a right mess aren't we?

To write the previous two paragraphs makes my blood boil. The wages footballers demand is absolutely disgusting. They make more money in a month than some would hope to ever make in a lifetime. When will the line be drawn? How can one human being, same as the rest of us, be worth £80 million? The UK and Irish economy is in turmoil, and all-the-while Wayne Rooney can kick up a fuss and in 48 hours sees his wages double? The injustice is frightening. And for me, what appears all the more frightening, is that few even seem to mind.