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Hi to anyone reading this. I'm a retired biomedical scientist who specialised in transfusion science for many years. Now free from the pressures of the daily grind and out-of-hours call-outs I am enjoying my life in different ways. Learning new things - my PC for instance - travelling around the UK to the many areas I've never been before. I've done the 'see the world' bit - I spent 12 years in the Army Medical Services. One day, if I ever get round to working digital photography out (I never really got the hang of non-digital), I might post a pic. But then again I would not want to make people ill. Oh yes, I'm Cornish. For those on the other side of the pond this means I come from the far south west bit of England - but I'm not English.

Sports & Recreation > English Soccer Why the Premier League is the most lucrative football league in the world

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In January 1961 something happened which was to change the course of professional football world wide. The Professional Footballers Association, the players' Trade Union, called, in time-honoured trade union fashion, for a strike because it could not get its own way with the authorities. Jimmy Hill, a player for Brentford and Fulham later to become manager and a director of Coventry City and a TV pundit of renown, was its leader. Up to this point professional footballers were subject to a maximum wage, then 20 per week. Their contracts also, in theory, tied them to their club for life alth...

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