Post by hendo on Apr 19, 2020 8:39:04 GMT
Statistics
Our very own young prodigy, Michael, gathers all the Gs playing statistics, and I thought it was time to help out by throwing in a few more general football facts and figures.
Firstly, the money: Sky TV pay around £11 million pounds for every Premier League match that they broadcast. That works out at over £2000 a second.
Science has shown that, on average, blinking means that our eyes are shut for 3 seconds every minute, which means, over a whole game, the TV audience is missing over half a million pounds worth of football.
Last year the Premier league received the equivalent funding, from TV alone, sufficient to pay for at least a dozen new hospitals, or a couple of new state-of-the-art aircraft carriers, or 1,000 Challenger tanks, or 120 fighter jets or, at current Oven Door prices, 366 million gallons of Bovril which is enough to cover the whole of Surrey in boiling beef extract to a depth of 4cm and leave enough brown meaty sludge to feed all gardens and allotments.
The typical salary of a player in the Premiership is now over £2.5 million a year and yet hardly any of them seem capable of taking a decent corner. On average they cover around 6 miles a match, which works out over the season as them being paid nearly £7 to move a whole yard.
According to the Premier League website, the average number of times a player actually touches a ball during a match is 39. In the unlikely event that someone actually plays all ninety minutes of every game, they are receiving £1700 for every kick.
Harking back to the subject of the Military, in 2020, there are approximately 79,000 full-time troops in the British Army, 32,000 in the Royal Air Force, and 33,000 in the Navy and Marines.
There are also 50,000 qualified referees.
This suggests that, in the event of a foreign power invading our shores, should our troops be occupied in some conflict in a far off land, our next strongest force of authority will be dressed all in black and face the enemy armed only with two coloured cards, dodgy eyesight and an Acme Thunderer.
Our very own young prodigy, Michael, gathers all the Gs playing statistics, and I thought it was time to help out by throwing in a few more general football facts and figures.
Firstly, the money: Sky TV pay around £11 million pounds for every Premier League match that they broadcast. That works out at over £2000 a second.
Science has shown that, on average, blinking means that our eyes are shut for 3 seconds every minute, which means, over a whole game, the TV audience is missing over half a million pounds worth of football.
Last year the Premier league received the equivalent funding, from TV alone, sufficient to pay for at least a dozen new hospitals, or a couple of new state-of-the-art aircraft carriers, or 1,000 Challenger tanks, or 120 fighter jets or, at current Oven Door prices, 366 million gallons of Bovril which is enough to cover the whole of Surrey in boiling beef extract to a depth of 4cm and leave enough brown meaty sludge to feed all gardens and allotments.
The typical salary of a player in the Premiership is now over £2.5 million a year and yet hardly any of them seem capable of taking a decent corner. On average they cover around 6 miles a match, which works out over the season as them being paid nearly £7 to move a whole yard.
According to the Premier League website, the average number of times a player actually touches a ball during a match is 39. In the unlikely event that someone actually plays all ninety minutes of every game, they are receiving £1700 for every kick.
Harking back to the subject of the Military, in 2020, there are approximately 79,000 full-time troops in the British Army, 32,000 in the Royal Air Force, and 33,000 in the Navy and Marines.
There are also 50,000 qualified referees.
This suggests that, in the event of a foreign power invading our shores, should our troops be occupied in some conflict in a far off land, our next strongest force of authority will be dressed all in black and face the enemy armed only with two coloured cards, dodgy eyesight and an Acme Thunderer.