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A 26yr old female whose brain is powered by caffeine; without its main fuel source it has a working speed slower than that of a slug. That aside, she wishes she could grow a teeny weeny bit (read: a lot) taller and constantly whines about her weight. Enjoys devising novel ways to traumatise people with her bludders. Oh, and she is rather antisocial.

So I read this particular article on Today, about some S-League players who get paid just a pathetic amount of money as allowance.

Make a guess, how much do they get?

$500?

Nope.

$300?

Not even that.

They get just 100 friggin' dollars.

Can you believe it? That's not even as much as what some of the kids are getting for their allowance nowadays.

The president of this club explained that the majority of the money ($1500 out of the players' salary of $1600) was deducted to cover expenses such as accomodation, transport and food, and that the players knew that before they came over to Singapore.

But... after reading the article, I couldn't help feeling that the players were seriously cheated; I felt pretty pissed and disgusted with the club.

The article mentioned that each of them had to fork out $800 for the rent. OK, maybe the rent is damn high. But according to the article, there were 22 people squeezing into a house. Which means the total rent collected amounts to $17600. Now, I don't know about the market rates for renting a house, but I'd think it can't be that astronomical, right?! It's not even in Bukit Timah, for goodness' sake! Even if you throw in other factors like electrical bills and utilities, it still can't be that high.

Plus, the players aren't even doing any cooking- $700 has been deducted from their pay for meals and transport - which, I think is rather unneccessary. I mean, if I were them, I'd rather be able to cook my own food. At least, I can eat what I want and what I like - at the price I'm willing to pay.

Then this guy said something like, the players get an additional allowance of $50 as match-winning bonus.

Yeah right... like that's a lot, huh.

He also mentioned something like they'd be entitled to 35% of the prize money if they ever finish in the top three positions in the league. It does sound reasonable, doesn't it?
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Except that when you realise that it's to be shared among the team, it sounds pathetic.

What pissed me the most though, was the attitude of the president. To quote his f%cked up remark, "This was supposed to be a stepping stone for the players and if they play well, they will be offered bigger contracts at other clubs. This should be their ambition. Would they even have a chance to play football in any other country if they were not given this oppurtunity in Singapore?"

Wtf. I'd think if the players knew what kind of shit they were getting themselves into in the first place before signing the contract, they'd never have come here, not even at gunpoint.

And did you notice? He didn't even sound remorseful or guilty.

Whatever happened to ethics?

Has it become non-existent in this world anymore?
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