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Some good point raised there, with not much to contradict. But even allowing for all of the above, what will it take to motivate players that are earning fortunes; playing for one of the world's greatest clubs against their biggest rivals in front of a crowd of 75,000+? There is something dreadfully wrong when so many of our players can give the impression of not giving a toss. It maybe something of a cliche, but after todays shower of a performance, I really do wonder what is the motivating factor for some of these so called professionals.

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Watch out world, the County have signed Blake!

For his wonderful exhibition against Jeff Lacy, I'd nominate Joe Calzaghe.

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.....we'd all be wearing safety helmets whilst watching workers cash in on their own unique brand of insider dealing.

Could be wrong on this, however, given that the FA will pay for the hire of the stadium the MS bigwigs will get their slice of the pie, irrespective of numbers attending. As with the post above regarding sales of goods inside the MS, I doubt if any agreement extends much beyond the FA paying a sum up front for use of the Stadium/services with the onus on the FA to turn the event into a profit-making one for themselves.

I would imagine that the sale of goods etc is factored in to any agreement between the MS and FA, whereby the profit from this area goes straight to the FA and not the MS.

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