Money Money Money
I was to understand very early in my soccer career that collusion was a bed mate of football.
Once again the dark side of football emerged from the woodwork as before the match one of the Norwich City players approached Charlie Hurley and I in the players’ corridor suggesting to Chas that a number of the Norwich City team would be prepared to throw the game for some remuneration.
“Oh, by the way chairman what about the £10,000 that was promised to the players in the dressing room after the Chelsea semi-final?”
“What money is this?” enquired Tom Cowie.
I lost count as the likes of Ronaldo (£122,400), Rooney (£116,663) and Giggs (£83,194) took the amount very quickly to over £1,000,000 a week well before the last of the squad had passed me by.