Footballers = overpaid muppets?

[leowyatt]

Originally Posted by Will

even rugby most of the players have been educated to a-level and above - so you can have a professional sporting career and still have some modicum of academia to at least be relatively coherent or interesting.

Sorry Will but that is a very biased answer. I assume you are talking about Rugby Union which is always played by posh/grammar schools and don't play football as it is too common, so of course the rugby players will have a higher level of education than the footballer who goes to a worse school.

At my school the rugby union team were treated like Gods and they were as thick as they came, they did the only thing they were good at. These were lads who were attending a grammar school which cost their parents around 15k a year to attend and got a bloody good education but simply couldn't take it in.

Rugby Union is primarly played in the south where as League is very much a nothern sport. So I think if you include all rugby variations then you'll see that there are some which have a higher level of education than others and the same can be said of football.