Chic would have envied current Chelsea keeper Petr Cech, who is on a couple of million a year or more.
And while Britain's pampered footballing elite sees its wages rocket season by season, Britain's young people have seen a dramatic decline in their earning opportunities. It is sometimes hard to believe that an unqualified minimum-age male school-leaver at the end of the 1970s could hope to earn something in the region of 60 a week. Young women leaving school at 16, in contrast, were unlikely to get more than 25 a week when they entered occupations such as caring, shop or factory work.
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