please log in to view this image Sir Alex Ferguson gets £108,000 a day — and he's retired. So why can’t football pay the living wage? Nowhere is the greed, selfishness and staggering inequity of modern business more vividly illustrated than in English football’s Premier League. To them that hath, more shall be given. And to them that hath nowt? Who cares? In a blog last week, the Guardian football writer Daniel Taylor disclosed that Sir Alex Ferguson, who retired as Manchester United’s manager at the end of the 2013 season, had been paid £2.165m in the eight months to June last year for his new role as the club’s “global ambassador”. The financial documents published by United didn’t make it clear if this sum included four months back pay to May 2013, when Ferguson signed his new agreement, or whether it represented two thirds of an annual salary that would be worth roughly £3m in total. But as his contract reportedly stipulates that he need work no more than 20 days a year, even the lower estimate rewards him at the rate of £108,250 a day.
