27th May 2006

Excesses

The radical European-wide blueprint to curb football's excesses has much that is attractive.

Perhaps before it is tried out in football we should try out the arrangements on Members of the European Union and their excessive salaries and allowances. If that result were deemed to be a success we could continue by addressing the excesses in football. Subsequently we could consider applying the principles in other areas. Maybe the excessive salaries and benefits of business men, media types, pop idols, MPs and Cabinet Ministers could be curbed.

Such arrangements might go some way to diminish the growing gap between the overpaid most affluent and the poorest in present day Britain.