Living Wage campaign update

[brian green]

They appear to be terrified.

[Witton Warrior]

I was ashamed to see Villa fans fighting among themselves at Forest with Forest stewards making an excellent job of restoring order. 

What is it with us fighting each other these days? Drink-related i suppose.
Saw enough of at the Final...

[brian green]

Pissed up out of their minds, faces as red as turkey cocks' arses but soon deeply ashamed of themselves I was relieved to see.   If the coppers had got involved the fans would have got battered I am sure.  Those prats owe a big thank you to the Forest stewards.

[Clampy]

These fights normally kick off over a disagreement of some sort, so for it to happen at a freindly is ridiculous.

[paul_e]

Without meaning to sound preach-y I don't understand why anyone gets drunk before going to a match, a beer or 2 before the game and another couple afterwards I can live with but turning up already pissed is just weird.

[conman]

Without meaning to sound preach-y I don't understand why anyone gets drunk before going to a match, a beer or 2 before the game and another couple afterwards I can live with but turning up already pissed is just weird.

its because sometimes you get in a round with fast drinkers and before you know it you have drank ten pints

[Risso]

Whenever I'm in the queue to get something to eat or drink at half time, the kids serving behind the counter never look to me like they're doing it because they love the club.

They also all look startled at being asked to provide something that's listed for sale. They're almost up there with Paul Lambert in the useless stakes.

[pauliewalnuts]

Whenever I'm in the queue to get something to eat or drink at half time, the kids serving behind the counter never look to me like they're doing it because they love the club.

They also all look startled at being asked to provide something that's listed for sale. They're almost up there with Paul Lambert in the useless stakes.

Or give change.

MATHSTERROR

[pauliewalnuts]

Without meaning to sound preach-y I don't understand why anyone gets drunk before going to a match, a beer or 2 before the game and another couple afterwards I can live with but turning up already pissed is just weird.

I like football a lot, and I also like drinking alcohol a lot, but I've never really had that link between the two where I feel I have to drink as much as I can before a match.

At least not since i was a teenager (mind you, that was the Turner / McNeill era, so anything even slightly mind-bending which would blunt the shite we were watching was much appreciated).

[paul_e]

Without meaning to sound preach-y I don't understand why anyone gets drunk before going to a match, a beer or 2 before the game and another couple afterwards I can live with but turning up already pissed is just weird.

I like football a lot, and I also like drinking alcohol a lot, but I've never really had that link between the two where I feel I have to drink as much as I can before a match.

At least not since i was a teenager (mind you, that was the Turner / McNeill era, so anything even slightly mind-bending which would blunt the shite we were watching was much appreciated).

Yeah exactly, they just don't feel like things that naturally go together for me. As a rugby and cricket fan I like having a drink or 2 whilst a game is on but there's a big difference between a couple of drinks and getting pissed.

[brian green]

I like(d) drinking a lot and I like football a lot. I like both far too much and one had to go. As the curtain came down on last season I was pretty certain I had made the wrong choice. Now that pain has eased a tiny bit common sense prevails again.

[Lizz]

Much as I like a drink, I will not spend money on getting pissed amounts of alcohol at something that has cost a lot of money to go to.

[KRS]

Without meaning to sound preach-y I don't understand why anyone gets drunk before going to a match, a beer or 2 before the game and another couple afterwards I can live with but turning up already pissed is just weird.

What I don't get are those fans (particularly at away games) that spend all their time below the stand drinking...albeit they seem to be having a good time singing but they don't actually join the rest of us in the crowd, watching the game or supporting the team. Considering they've made the effort to buy a ticket and travel, it doesn't make much sense to me. Weird.

[placeforparks]

everton becoming only the 5th club to pay the living wage...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/oct/31/everton-to-pay-staff-living-wage

Everton has become the second Premier League club to pledge to pay all its staff at least the independently calculated living wage.

The Liverpool-based football club is being accredited by the Living Wage Foundation as the body prepares to announce this year’s minimum pay rate - which is based on a calculation of the amount employees and their families need to live.

Everton joins Chelsea, the London club owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, which is the only other Premier League club to pay all its workers, including contractors and agency staff, at least the minimum wage.

Famous footballers may earn millions of pounds a year, but clubs have been criticised for paying backroom staff, particularly contractors who can make up the majority of those working on matchdays, little more than the legally required minimum.

Only five football clubs – including Luton Town, Derby County and Heart of Midlothian – are fully accredited by the LWF, ensuring that all staff and agency workers have earned at least £9.40 an hour in London and £8.25 outside the capital.

Ahead of accreditation by the LWF, Everton has handed 250 casual and match-day staff a pay rise taking them to the living wage. Over the next three years, it has also pledged to ensure that more than 700 contractors working for the club will receive a pay rise amounting to as much as £2,000 a year.

Prof Denise Barrett-Baxendale, Everton’s deputy chief executive and director, said: “It is extremely important to us that we treat all of our colleagues well and reward people fairly in terms of their pay. Supporting the accredited living wage is quite simply the right thing to do; it improves our employees’ quality of life but also benefits our business and society as a whole.”

Katherine Chapman, the director of the Living Wage Foundation, welcomed the accreditation, saying: “It is fantastic that Everton have become the second Premier League football club to sign up as a living wage employer, ensuring that all their staff – from caterers to match day staff – receive a real living wage that covers the cost of living.

“I hope other football clubs will take their lead and follow suit.”

[aj2k77]

Fair do's to Everton. There simply is no reason why anyone working at a football club should pick up £7 an hour when the game is swimming with money.