Rejected petition Not support football clubs during COVID

Stop advertising providing sports personnel with extravagant wages that undermine the economy and take much need cash from the masses and giving it to the minority Reduce tax relief on advertising to a set level to stop ridiculous payments to so called celebrities.

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People should be paid for there worth to society. How can a CEO of a multimillion pound company, offering employment and profit, be singled out for an annual incentive payment of circa £500,000 when on the back page of the papers a football player is celebrated for signing a £500,000 weekly wage. Cap club spending and stop them borrowing so much money to pay over inflated wages to so-called sports stars.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.

We understand that you're concerned about wages of some football players, but it's not clear what you want the Government to do.

The Government is not responsible for setting maximum salaries for particular workers, and is also not responsible for spending by football clubs.

We have published the following petition, which you might like to sign:

Stop Multi Million pound companies claiming government funded furlough payments: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/314882

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 29 September 2020
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