Saturday, April 29 – 1899
One of the worst institutions in professional football is the bonus paid to players for winning matches. It commenced in quite a small way, and has grown for step with the progress of the mad ascent of wages.
It is nowadays a most serious item in a club’s expenditure. Players, no matter how munificently remunerated, come to regard this added gratuity as part of their ordinary salary.
Some have the impudence to make representations to their directors after a match that a bonus shall be paid where a draw has resulted away from home; and grumble loudly if they do not get what they ask.
The season which closes to-day has seen a great development of this pernicious system. Men have actually needed the temptation of this bribe to make them play well before their own supporters.
Formerly it was a case of a bonus…
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