Originally Posted by
wiggy
To continue that digression for a minute, agreed...Football finance has got more complex recently but the scale of pay in the Premiership originally was in part due to individuals (not society) being prepared to pay to watch football and then how that money was distributed - who got the biggest chunk - the players? board? Owners? and merchandise sales....It's widely believed Ronaldo's move back to MU was more about shirt sales than goals.
If somebody can find a way of selling the rights to watching air combat on live TV and also start selling Goose/Maverik T-shirts at the Squadron store outside the station gates then the comparisons with the likes of Haaland might be valid.
Reminds me of a landaway to a display where the studes ( Observers naturally !) flogged off all our ERC’s and TAPS etc to a very eager German public. All done for our squadron charity but a) in theory confidential and b) they failed to keep any back, including the contents of my navbag. Fortunately the aircraft knew the way back to the Dutch coast and thank God for LondonMIL.