Being a professional footballer
From what I can gather, there is absolutely no downside to this as a profession. To list a few of the hurdles you may have to overcome during this career:

Get paid thousands of pounds a week to play football.

Marry gorgeous (if intellectually challenged) woman.

Be adored by fans, and hated by opposing supporters for how good you are.

Get to travel all over the world with club and country.

See people walking around the street with your own name plastered all over the backs of their shirts.

Get summer off.

Fall into a career during your late 30s of either managing football, coaching football, watching football or talking about football.

Just to reiterate: Get paid thousands of pounds a week to play football.

AND ON TOP OF ALL THIS

If you feel like having the weekend off, just go and shag a prostitute!

And before you ask, yes I am incredibly jealous.
( the pink chicken sniffer sniffs pink chickens., Tue 14 Sep 2010, 13:28, 13 replies)

there's one tricky bit
to get into that position you need to be really quite good at football.

Once you've got to that point you can stop trying, but before you achieve the fame and big salary, you've got to be rather good.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 13:43, closed)

Not quite true though is it?
Perry Groves
Andy Sinton
Carlton Palmer
Geoff Thomas
Brian MacClair
Robbie Savage
and let's not forget... Titus (pay attention) Bramble
(mersault, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 14:06, closed)

I only recognise 2 of those names.
not big into football.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 15:55, closed)

*cough* emile heskey *cough*

(Frample Tromwibbler climbs an obstacle like old people fuck, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 17:52, closed)

Are you
a Toon fan? Shitus has been praised at most other places he's played, he was just weapons-grade shit at Newcastle. Fucking typical. I just hope he regains the form he showed at SJP in his new job down the road.
( His Popiness the Hole Invaded Poland on, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 20:24, closed)

i hope the mackums defence explodes
with shittery, now that titfuck shambles is there :-)
(Monkeystrumpet monkey. Monkey, MONKEY!!!, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 10:24, closed)

Yes,
but that is true of a lot of the jobs that have been suggested really. Just because being a football is more "high profile" doesn't make it any harder than some others that I've read about on here!
( the pink chicken sniffer sniffs pink chickens., Tue 14 Sep 2010, 17:08, closed)

Given that there are over 40,000 professional football clubs in Britain, you have to be very, very good indeed.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 19:07, closed)

I imagine the majority of the work goes into practice and staying in shape. But then you'd have to play football, for hours and hours, which I imagine is really boring.
(Mong goose, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 15:40, closed)

that's why they are almost all stupid

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 15:54, closed)

Mind, you don't see Stephen Hawking taking many shots on goal.
He's pretty good at dribbling, though, I suppose.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 16:10, closed)

Pffft

(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 0:57, closed)

I suppose,
however I would much rather play football for a living than do most jobs out there, even if it wasn't for the ludicrous amounts of money they get paid.

And no end of people actually go to the gym or do exercise for fun . Sometimes even paying for the pleasure! Football is like doing the opposite!
( the pink chicken sniffer sniffs pink chickens., Tue 14 Sep 2010, 17:10, closed)