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Arsenal – 3 players Theo Walcott, Thierry Henry, and Justin Hoyte
Aston Villa – 2 players Steven Davis, Ashley Young
Blackburn - 23 players including David Bentley and Morten Gamst Pedersen
Bolton - 22 players including Nicky Hunt and Kevin Nolan
Celtic – 1 player Neil Lennon
Charlton – 8 players Matt Holland, Luke Young, Hermann Hreidarsson, Ben Thatcher, Darren Ambrose, Darren Bent, Marcus Bent, Scott Carson
Chelsea - 0 players, donation from club to Mayday for Nurses Hardship fund
Everton - 8 players on board including Alan Stubbs
Fulham – 28 players, the entire first team squad Carlos Bocanegra, Michael Brown, Jimmy Bullard, Philippe Christanval, Simon Davies, Clint Dempsey, Papa Bouba Diop, Simon Elliott, Ahmad Elrich, Adam Federici, Heiðar Helguson, Claus Jensen, Collins John, Zat Knight, Jan Laštuvka, Brian McBride, Robert Milsom, Vincenzo Montella, Antti Niemi, Elliot Omozusi, Ian Pearce, Mark Pembridge, Franck Queudrue, Tomasz Radzinski, Liam Rosenior, Wayne Routledge, Alexey Smertin, Moritz Volz
Liverpool - 12 players Craig Bellamy, Jamie Carragher, Peter Crouch, Robbie Fowler, Steven Gerrard, Mark Gonzalez, Harry Kewell, Dirk Kuyt, Jermaine Pennant, Pepe Reina, John Arne Riise, Bolo Zenden
Man City – 6 players Michael Ball, Joey Barton, Richard Dunne, Georgios Samaras, Nicky Weaver and Micah Richards
Man Utd – 2 players Gary Neville and Ryan Giggs
Middlesborough - 0 players, manager Gareth Southgate on board
Newcastle - 12 players Titus Bramble, Celestine Babayaro, Pavel Srnicek, Nicky Butt, Stephen Carr, Damien Duff, Shay Given, Stephen Harper, James Milner, Scott Parker, Peter Ramage, Nolberto Solano
Portsmouth – 1 player David James
Rangers – 2 players Gavin Rae and Barry Ferguson
Reading – 27 players, the entire first team squad Mikkel Anderson, Alan Bennett, Andre Bikey, Oliver Bozanic, Aaron Brown, Bobby Convey, Ulises de la Cruz, Kevin Doyle, Michael Duberry, Brynjar Gunnarsson, Marcus Hahnemann, Greg Halford, John Halls, James Harper, Stephen Hunt, Ívar Ingimarsson, Seol Ki-Hyeon, Dave Kitson, Leroy Lita, Glen Little, Shane Long, Péter Máté, Graeme Murty, John Oster, Nicky Shorey, Steve Sidwell, Ibrahima Sonko
Sheffield – 23 players
Tottenham – 20 players including Paul Robinson and Jermaine Defoe
Watford – 28 players, the entire first team squad including Malky Mackay
West Ham - 26 players, the entire first team squad including Nigel Reo Coker
Wigan – 1 player Arjan de Zeeuw

We didn't get a mention on the news yesterday - Spurs did. Funny that.

But it's a pretty good barometer of the issues at the top of the English game.

Best wrote: Blackburn - 23 players including David Bentley and Morten Gamst Pedersen
Bolton - 22 players including Nicky Hunt and Kevin Nolan
Fulham – 28 players, the entire first team squad Carlos Bocanegra, Michael Brown, Jimmy Bullard, Philippe Christanval, Simon Davies, Clint Dempsey, Papa Bouba Diop, Simon Elliott, Ahmad Elrich, Adam Federici, Heiðar Helguson, Claus Jensen, Collins John, Zat Knight, Jan Laštuvka, Brian McBride, Robert Milsom, Vincenzo Montella, Antti Niemi, Elliot Omozusi, Ian Pearce, Mark Pembridge, Franck Queudrue, Tomasz Radzinski, Liam Rosenior, Wayne Routledge, Alexey Smertin, Moritz Volz
Liverpool - 12 players Craig Bellamy, Jamie Carragher, Peter Crouch, Robbie Fowler, Steven Gerrard, Mark Gonzalez, Harry Kewell, Dirk Kuyt, Jermaine Pennant, Pepe Reina, John Arne Riise, Bolo Zenden
Newcastle - 12 players Titus Bramble, Celestine Babayaro, Pavel Srnicek, Nicky Butt, Stephen Carr, Damien Duff, Shay Given, Stephen Harper, James Milner, Scott Parker, Peter Ramage, Nolberto Solano
Reading – 27 players, the entire first team squad Mikkel Anderson, Alan Bennett, Andre Bikey, Oliver Bozanic, Aaron Brown, Bobby Convey, Ulises de la Cruz, Kevin Doyle, Michael Duberry, Brynjar Gunnarsson, Marcus Hahnemann, Greg Halford, John Halls, James Harper, Stephen Hunt, Ívar Ingimarsson, Seol Ki-Hyeon, Dave Kitson, Leroy Lita, Glen Little, Shane Long, Péter Máté, Graeme Murty, John Oster, Nicky Shorey, Steve Sidwell, Ibrahima Sonko
Sheffield – 23 players
Tottenham – 20 players including Paul Robinson and Jermaine Defoe
Watford – 28 players, the entire first team squad including Malky Mackay
West Ham - 26 players, the entire first team squad including Nigel Reo Coker

Worst wrote:Arsenal – 3 players Theo Walcott, Thierry Henry, and Justin Hoyte
Aston Villa – 2 players Steven Davis, Ashley Young
Chelsea - 0 players, donation from club to Mayday for Nurses Hardship fund
Man Utd – 2 players Gary Neville and Ryan Giggs
Middlesborough - 0 players, manager Gareth Southgate on board
Portsmouth – 1 player David James
Rangers – 2 players Gavin Rae and Barry Ferguson
Wigan – 1 player Arjan de Zeeuw

suppose wigan have mortgages to think about bless them. Quite happy to name and shame here. It also says a lot about the cultures of some clubs. Fulham apparently were told they HAD to, others have clearly just tossed this aside unaware of the impending PR disaster.

It's the equivalent of us giving £50 - £100 away to charity

hisroyalgingerness wrote:Middlesborough - 0 players, manager Gareth Southgate on board

On board? wtf does that mean?

I recall Big Kev Nolan including a piece about this in his BBC column; he'd tried to encourage the rest of our squad to donate as his girlfriend is a nurse.

I notice you say entire 1st team squad for some teams. I didn't know we had 22 players surely this is our entire squad, let alone 1st team

Abdoulaye's Twin wrote:I notice you say entire 1st team squad for some teams. I didn't know we had 22 players surely this is our entire squad, let alone 1st team

I’ve half-inched the quote from somewhere

I suppose first team squad for us would be anyone who’s played or been about:
Jussi
Walker
Al-Habsi
Hunt
Meite
Faye
TBH
Gardner
Pedersen
Campo
Speed
Nobby
Davo
Nico
Diouf
Stel
Tal
Vaz
Ando
Michalik
O’Brien
Fortune

I don't know if people should be "named and shamed" if they don't contribute?

Isn't charity quite a personal thing?? Should a rich footballer contribute to every single good cause going round?? I've heard tell of some generous premiership souls who work very hard with charities close to their own hearts so might not feel any affinity with this one? Don't some overseas footballers do massive things in their own country to help combat serious poverty? (I think I remember Kanu or someone similar doing a huge effort for his native area??)

Perhaps also some may believe that setting up a harship nurses isn't the responsibility of the well-off and more the responsiblity of the government???

I'm not necessairly agreeing with these points, more just raising as a way of saying perhaps people don't always feel the need to contribute to a particular cause. One of my close friends is training as a nurse and there is no way I could cope with what she sees on a regular basis, I'm a complete mardy with blood and vomit and other kinds of yakkyness, but she's chosen to go into it thankfully. My other friend's aunt was a midwife for many years but after poor wages (£13k at the time) looong hours plus the increasing responibility for more mother and babies than was really safe she jacked it in. She now works for a private organisation advising expectant mothers on a phoneline for much better pay.

Compared to a premiership footballer, nurse's pay is a ridiculous joke.... but then should that be the footballers issue????????

Who cares, it's their money, they can do what they want with it, maybe the Chelsea players already give enough of their money to charity. I certainly wouldn't give a day's pay to nurses.

from what i gather giggs and neville started it. funny how none of their teammates jumped on that particular bandwagon

and also the teams who did: reading, bolton, sheff utd, fulham, jackburn, watford.... hardly the richest clubs. then the ones skiving are the ones who get paid perhaps a little better man utd, chelsea and arsenal

considering if a player ends his career he could be in the hands of such a nurse i think i'd be in for cheering them up


another view point is that we are actually talking about a lot of money. in some cases 15k. tis a lot of cash to give away no matter what proportion of your wage it is.

i wonder what game the media are actually playing printing this? must really be struggling to fill space

I think the idea was Nigel Reo-Coker's - someone must have told him he needed some good publicity.

Why donate to nurses. What's so special about them?

reason for press coverage becomes clear.... there's a TV show on Thurs

maybe worth watching for shits and giggles. i liked the bit in the trailer when she thanks mark hughes and then says "who are you?" and he replies "I'm their manager".... grateful bitch

bobby5 wrote:Why donate to nurses. What's so special about them?

dear me

bobby5 wrote:Why donate to nurses. What's so special about them?

Spot on

And, just about every prem footballer pays enough in tax to feel like he's done his bit of paying nurses wages

Batman wrote:

bobby5 wrote:Why donate to nurses. What's so special about them?

dear me

I can't believe you graced that daft question with an answer.

CrazyHorse wrote:

Batman wrote:

bobby5 wrote:Why donate to nurses. What's so special about them?

dear me

I can't believe you graced that daft question with an answer.

Just cos you don't agree doesn't mean its daft

Folk attempt to justify footballers wages with the comment 'supply and demand'

Demand for nurses is no greater than supply

Aye, wages could be increased, but thats going to cost everybody more....

CAPSLOCK wrote:

CrazyHorse wrote:

Batman wrote:

bobby5 wrote:Why donate to nurses. What's so special about them?

dear me

I can't believe you graced that daft question with an answer.

Just cos you don't agree doesn't mean its daft

Folk attempt to justify footballers wages with the comment 'supply and demand'

Demand for nurses is no greater than supply

Aye, wages could be increased, but thats going to cost everybody more....

Which people would complain about. Thus creating a vicious circle of "Nurses deserve more pay, but I won't be the one paying".

I'm with Caps on this one.

Its not about me agreeing or not, I just reckon it was a daft question to ask. Its pretty clear why someone may want to donate to nurses.

CrazyHorse wrote:Its not about me agreeing or not, I just reckon it was a daft question to ask. Its pretty clear why someone may want to donate to nurses.

Crazy Horse dodges bullet with neat pirouette.