I know there are countless essays which have been penned condemning the fact that “Footballers’ wages are too high!” and protesting “Doctors deserve higher wages than footballers!” However, I have the pleasure to inform you that this essay is slightly different. My ‘goal’ is to justify exactly why football players deserve to earn the staggering amounts they are paid. You are thinking I must be crazy, right? The current world footballer of the year, Cristiano Ronaldo earns around £274,000 per week. For what? Kicking a football around a field two or three times a week? It is important to realise that to be able to kick that ball around and earn his bumper pay cheque there is great deal of (unseen) hard work which goes on behind the scenes. Critics bark that being a professional footballer player is easy but I certainly could not imagine them battling through three or four hours worth of intensive training, followed by several twenty-five to thirty minute periods of cardiovascular workouts and then traveling to the gym to improve core strength, all while on a strict diet plan. That is just the basic football player’s daily routine. The best of the best, like Cristiano Ronaldo, go through even more torture on top of that by arriving early to training and finishing after hours. It is rumored that Ronaldo’s workout is so intensive and physically demanding that even fitness fanatics vomit with exhaustion trying to attempt his routine, unless it is carried out on a daily basis. There is no room for error on the football pitch because, to use a footballing cliché, the players’ purpose is to entertain the thousands of fans who buy tickets to spectate the games in the pouring rain and the hundreds of millions sitting watching from the comfort of their home, or the pub, of course. The London based team, Chelsea, charge an extortionate rate of £41 for a ticket and with Chelsea’s stadium, Stamford Bridge having an average a