sportsmen and women are overpaid

i am new to this, i had no idea what to write, but now i have got an idea, so here i go: supply and demand it may be, but there is still a serious issue here. i couldn't care if there were only 24 sports people in the entire world, they are not saving lives!!! My first point: sportspeople are completely overpaid. They are given millions of pounds when there are children and adults starving in third world countries. Half the world — nearly three billion people — live on less than two dollars a day According to UNICEF 30,000 children die each day due to poverty. How can this be happening in our world, when there are sportspeople, footballers afor example, who have 4, 5 cars, several million pound houses??! It's ridiculous. They could easily live a lavish lifestyle, but on slightly less money – with the extra going to the poor. My second point: these sportsmen and women are people's idols!! People dream about one day being as good as their favorite sports star. The only trouble is that these sports players often end up getting drunk, vandalizing, break the law. Does this mean that others think they should be doing this too?I think it encourages a nation to copy these sports players and act irresponsibly. Andrew Flintoff was one of six players fined by the England management on a Saturday in april after their late-night drinking exploits became public knowledge. Flintoff had allegedly commandeered, and then capsized, a pedalo late at night. The team's five-star hotel forced England to take tougher disciplinary action against him. This sort of behavior encourages others to act in this irresponsible manner too. Cricket is known as a gentleman's sport, yet Flintoff acted in this way, most ungentlemanly, he gets paid ridiculous amounts of money and he gets endorsed by Woodworm. This man is earning huge amounts, yet acts like a complete idiot!! This isn't fair. People out there work hard for their livings, yet he gets paid loads AND acts in this way. Fair? I think not. My third point: people claim that athletes get paid more due to the risk involved. But, don't solders also put their lives in terrible risk for their country and yet they get paid what the government feels the tax paying public can afford and will tolerate, this can be as little as ï¿½15, 000. Personally, I think this is unfair and completely ridiculous. I feel that the soldiers are leaving their family's for months at a time, risking their lives all for the benefit of the people in their country. As you commented, 'Sportsmen and women have talent, experience, and not to mention make a lot of sacrifices in order to keep their jobs (traveling, being in the public eye, constant physical improvement, etc.).' aren't soliders exposed to a lot of this too? to sum up a little: Footballers. The typical weekly wage is now an average of ï¿½60,000 a week. The highest earner in the Premier League at the moment is, of course, Cristiano Ronaldo, who now earns ï¿½145,000 a week after signing a new contract with Manchester United. Compare that to a Police Officer. A profession in which you risk your life every day, and they get just ï¿½20,000 a YEAR. This means that it would take your average Police Officer 7 and a half years to earn what Ronaldo does in seven days. How is that fair? To make matters worse, some soldiers get paid ï¿½15,000 a year. They're fighting in a war zone. Ronaldo runs around after a football. Fair? Take an idiot like Ashley Cole, who had the audacity to complain about receiving JUST ï¿½55,000 A WEEK. He took the decision to leave Arsenal to move to Chelsea who have the money to give him what he wants. Not long ago we had an appeal that asked every Premier League footballer to give just one days wages to help the NHS nurses who get rubbish money. ï¿½20,000 a year I believe. Some footballers had the cheek to say that nurses are overpaid. That's simply disgusting. Now I'm not saying it's the footballers' fault that nurses get bad wages, but they could easily afford to be of some assistance. What some footballers don't seem to realise, or care, is that every time they demand another ï¿½20,000 a week, they are pushing their fans closer to being out of pocket.