ENGLISH FOOTBALL CUP
CLUB PROFITS FOR LARGE GATES.
What ig the English Association Football Cup worth to the winners? As a piece of plate it has been valued at £50; as the emblem of the highest honour a football team can achieve it is invaluable, states a correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian." Many of the clubs spend upwards of a thousand pounds in special training for the players, but the money often proves a good investment. Even clubs defeated in the first round proper may make from £500 to £1000 as their share of the gate receipts. The whole competition, in fact, is one in which even the losers gain, and maay clubs which have struggled through one or two rounds find the increased gate receipts make all the difference between a profit and a loss on the season. Nor is the public left out of this general gain, for the amount raised by the entertainment tax on football matches helps to relieve the taxpayers' burden. Last year the entertainment tax on this branch of sport brought in over £30,000, and this year the revenue .from the tax has exceeded that figure.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 28, 2 August 1923, Page 11
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192ENGLISH FOOTBALL CUP Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 28, 2 August 1923, Page 11
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