SG Wages

I was watching a phenomenon last night. There was a young man, certainly not an investment broker but with the sort of income and tastes that you might associate with one. He was dressed in a blue outfit, not his usual one, and looked rather harassed, as if he had come home one day to find that all his leather shoes had turned to sandals.

Out of idle curiosity, I decided to see if my memories of his chosen sporting environment were correct. Yes, indeed; this young man named 'SG' was paid approximately £120,000 a week; which works out to about £17,300 a day. It is a mindboggling figure. If you were to type it into the little Google window and convert it to SG dollars, that would be about SGD 40,000 a day.

It put me in mind of a certain unsavoury incident that SG was involved in. Apparently, he was accused of participation in the sort of thing young men get up to when soused, and carted off to the local nick. The amount of income SG would have earned for 3 days in jail would have been 120,000 in SG dollars, just for sitting at Her Majesty's convenience for a while. I'm sure his fellow detainees would have been in awe.

These days, it seems that the wages of being a good ball-kicker are far greater than anything a conventional education might bring. That said, watching SG perform in his chosen colours, or even in his away kit (which makes him look as if he is from the other team in town), is an education all of its own. He is a great sportsman, even on a reasonably bad day; and in mitigation, there are about ten other sportsmen in his field who are paid more than he is throughout the world.