LIFE OF A FOOTBALLER.
ACTION FOR COMPENSATION,
[FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
London, January 21. Professional football-playing is not altogether a lucrative employment. A case came up this week in which a player, who was incapacitated by an injury to his knee last year during a match, sued his employers, the Millwall Football and Athletic Company, for compensation under the Workmen s Compensation Act. Frost* salary, £3 10s per week, continued until the expiration of his agreement in April. Then £1 per week compensation was allowed till the end of July. He is no longer able to play football, which had been his source of livelihood for 12 years, and, as his counsel said, had never learned a trade. The applicant stated that he had no summer occupation, because he got his pay, and usually went to the seaside for those months to brace himself up. The manager of the Millwall Football Club, said not one man in a, thousand was able to play football after 30. Judge Smyly awarded £1 a week.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15549, 5 March 1914, Page 8
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