What was the price of a bus ticket in 1979, can anyone tell me.
Thats the year of the first million pound player, standard bus ticket today is £2.40, inflation etc etc.
You get where I'm going. It got too bad way before this.
According to a Bath Uni paper I found online a 5 mile bus journey in London in 1976 was, on average, just about 13 pence. That had risen by 2 pence since 1973, so let's be generous and say in 1979 it would have cost 16 pence to do 5 miles.
That, I think, is 0.000016% of the £1m transfer record.
Today, a similar journey cost £2.50, or 0.00000125%. My maths isn't brilliant and maybe someone will correct me but I think that means that the average bus journey cost is worth proportionately 78% less of the transfer fee than it was in 1979. Meaning that transfer money is spiralling when compared to ordinary life.
Someone said on here the other day that football is almost 50% of global GDP. If that's correct then the situation is appalling. It's a game, it's not important, it's not even art, it's just a game, an amusement, a pass time. People are being bombed, gassed and starved. The oceans are dying, the climate is shifting and meanwhile football lumbers on like a giant bloated self consuming zombie sucking the life out of itself and not noticing that it's audience is turning it's back.
The game has come a long way since a bunch of blokes from Salters Spring factory walked to Wednesbury to buy a football. Unless it changes direction soon I fear it has almost reached the end of the road.
