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Oh I guess I have a half story about that.

Like 10-15 years ago one of my friends from school was a professional player. He played in Tier 3-4 across his career (he was on Tier 1 reserve team for his teenage years before being let to go play first team football). His team played one of the best Tier 1 teams in the country in the FA cup.

He got sent off for fouling Andriy Shevchenko who was held the record for the most expensive transfer fee in England when that team signed him.

So here was a dude I went to school with who got paid probably $500 a week fouling a dude who cost $45-50m in transfer fees and was getting paid like $100-200k a week. This was in errr 2007 iirc.