According to this article 60% of them blow their lot in five years.
Also, it seems a third of them are divorced within a year of retirement.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry at the fact that there's a charity for them.
I'm finding it between hard and impossible to have any sympathy. Maybe the answer is for Premiership clubs to have it in the contract that a small part of the wages gets invested for them, but they shouldn't need to be infantalised like that.
Also, it seems a third of them are divorced within a year of retirement.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry at the fact that there's a charity for them.
I'm finding it between hard and impossible to have any sympathy. Maybe the answer is for Premiership clubs to have it in the contract that a small part of the wages gets invested for them, but they shouldn't need to be infantalised like that.
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