August 9, 1930
The Arsenal paid over £10,000 in Entertainment Tax last season, Aston Villa and Chelsea over £9,000, Manchester City and Liverpool over £8,000, West Ham over £7,875, and Sheffield Wednesday over £6,000, to mention only a few of the League clubs. I understand that most of the clubs in membership with the Football League have been circularised by a theatrical and general amusement organisation inviting the clubs to lend their support to a deputation to the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the abolition of the tax, and the movement has been promised moral support.
(Hull Daily Mail: August 9, 1930)