If you type the words "overpaid prima donnas" into a search engine, there's a good chance that you will end up with some pages linking to stories about footballers.
It's now 130 years to the day that Football Association members met in London and agreed to turn the fledgling game of football into professional sport.
And since then, footballers across the water have gone from £1 a week at the dawn of professionalism through periods of wage caps and onto the TV money-infused Premier League era where weekly salaries have soared to the hundreds of thousands for the elite players ...
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*All figures are per week
And things have just exploded since the Millennium as TV and Champions League revenue's effects are felt at the biggest clubs:
