Players’ salaries have driven up prices in football and TONY BARRETT says it’s time footballers considered supporters’ plight

SOMEWHERE this weekend, perhaps after an unexpected victory or maybe following a win in a local derby, a player will say that they did it for the fans. He will mean it as well. It won’t be a falsehood or a meaningless platitude.

Players at all clubs, almost to a man, recognise and understand the need to perform for those who support them, the men, women and children who come out in all weathers and in all circumstances to give them th...