[adzii_nufc]

Only 14 years.

Its not like there's a whole board for sports now rather than a generic thread.

You expect sports starts to committ to 6 days a week of their sports profession and still somehow work a separate job to create income? You're entirely aware that being a Footballer, Rugby, Basketball or any major sports star generally is a full time job? Footballers for example committ to 9-5 training 5 days a week as well as a typical weekend match.

I highly doubt sports stars spend years of their life becoming the best 1% of the world in their sports just for money. It doesn't work like that. You have to be elite to make it.

The amount they're paid is debatable but at the end of the day it's a ~15 year career with little prospect at the end of it for most and they're paying massive amounts of tax on a weekly basis.

There's plenty of sports stars past and present that clearly love their professions too so that argument is void.