A Lifetime Job
.How precarious is the footballer’s career must be very obvious, yet I am sorry to say that many players do not realise this (writes Alex Jack in London “Daily Chronicle). They seem to think that they will always have £8 a week, and as soon as they draw their benefit money they spent a big slice of it on a motor-car. I have known men who have drawn as much as £2.000 in extras and yet leave the game without a penny in the locker. Perhaps one prospect that is more disturbing than another when the end arrives is that of having to be content with, say, £ 3 a week after having been accustomed to £4OO a year. The man who saves reasonably can do a great deal to make up the difference. With ordinary luck he ought to have sufficient capital to provide him with a pension of about £2 a week. I know that many players who have invested their money well have done much tfetter than that.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 898, 15 February 1930, Page 9
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173A Lifetime Job Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 898, 15 February 1930, Page 9
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