Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Modern Slavery Update

Last month Sepp Blatter, the President of FIFA, likened being paid £ 80,000 a week for playing football to modern slavery. Shortly after hearing the comments millionaire footballer Cristiano Ronaldo agreed with him. They were rightly lambasted for their ridiculous and, for anyone who has been the victim of slavery or still is, insulting comments.

It’s a good job golf is a bit more sensible than. Oh, well you would have thought so before reading Hunter Mahan’s comments on the Ryder Cup.

The American is boo-ing up because he might have to play in the Ryder Cup and represent his country FOR FREE.

"You've got dinners every night – huge, massive dinners. I know, as players, that's the last thing we want. You're just a slave that week."

After a quick bit of research into the plight of modern slaves I’ve found no reference to back breaking labour being followed by a gala dinner.

Is there anyway we could organise a job swap for rich sports stars and those forced into bonded labour in the third world. I’d love to see how they get on.

You can find out more about this story here.

We would love to know your views.


"What you upto this arvo Hunter?"
"Going out for a cheeky nine then it's back to the plantation for me."
"It's a hard knock life for some."


7/30/2008 11:22:11 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #  Comments [1] 

7/31/2008 12:09:50 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
Great post. Some of these guys will whinge about anything.
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