# What are salaries for British footballers like? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 19, 2006, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-salaries-for-british-footballers-like/361264 "2006-06-19T06:10:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-salaries-for-british-footballers-like/361264/21 "2006-06-20T00:31:49Z")
[QUOTE=e-logic] . He owns large parts of residential Manchester, so much so that Man Utd fans often sing “_We all live in a Robbie Fowler house!_”. [/QUOTE] Is that to the tune of _Yellow Submarine_? ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-salaries-for-british-footballers-like/361264/22 "2006-06-20T07:28:13Z")
[QUOTE=Spectre of Pithecanthropus] Is that to the tune of _Yellow Submarine_? [/QUOTE] Indeed! Mostly Man City fans, to be fair, rather than Utd… a die-hard Manc living in a house owned by a b\*stard scouser would seem to require either denial or a cheerful appreciation of the irony. ---
**Author:** ![fortytwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f9ae1b/32.png) [@fortytwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fortytwo)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-salaries-for-british-footballers-like/361264/23 "2006-06-20T12:53:42Z")
[QUOTE=Sierra Indigo] That, of course, would be exactly the same [about.com](http://about.com) link I posted upthread… [/QUOTE] Sorry, you’re right of course. I did open the link too. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2006, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-salaries-for-british-footballers-like/361264/24 "2006-06-21T11:37:31Z")
Just getting back to the original question re: Footballer’s Wives. If you imagine that the imaginary club featured would be a top 6 Premiership Team with a few of the players playing for England (I believe Conrad was supposed to be England Captain, a Beckham pastiche), then the lifetsyles depicted (endless cars, big houses, features in Hello magazine) are pretty close to reality. Certainly if the images of the England WAGS (wives and girlfriends) parading around the Prada shops in Germany right now are anything to go by. Now, let’s see if I can do this [http://tinyurl.com/q92ft](http://tinyurl.com/q92ft) Did it work? ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2006, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-salaries-for-british-footballers-like/361264/25 "2006-06-21T12:26:48Z")
[QUOTE=SanVito] Just getting back to the original question re: Footballer’s Wives. If you imagine that the imaginary club featured would be a top 6 Premiership Team with a few of the players playing for England (I believe Conrad was supposed to be England Captain, a Beckham pastiche), then the lifetsyles depicted (endless cars, big houses, features in Hello magazine) are pretty close to reality. Certainly if the images of the England WAGS (wives and girlfriends) parading around the Prada shops in Germany right now are anything to go by. Now, let’s see if I can do this [http://tinyurl.com/q92ft](http://tinyurl.com/q92ft) Did it work? [/QUOTE] Apparently they managed £55,000 in a single lunchtime the other day :eek: Several shops where they are staying have ordered in £100,000s of extra stock just for the WAGS. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-salaries-for-british-footballers-like/361264.md?page=1)