The Mayday for Nurses campaign
16 May, 2007 - 08:07
Vaguely interesting football related article:
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2007/05/16/nurse_the_screens_premiership.html
The Guardian wrote:
The Mayday for Nurses campaign shows some of the richest footballers are the least charitable....There appears to be an inverse correlation between Premiership success and giving. The whole squads of Watford and Sheffield United pledged, as did those of Fulham, Tottenham, Blackburn, Reading and West Ham.
The tightest team? Chelsea. Although they pledged a donation, they were the only club who could not find time for Hertz to visit and make her case. No Chelsea players donated a day's wage. "That was a disappointment. I'm sure that a lot of players would have come on board if I'd had the chance to talk to them," Hertz says. The irony is that she helped pave the way for chairman Roman Abramovich's billions, working for the World Bank, advising on Russia's "ill-fated" privatisation programme, before seeing the light and becoming an advocate of a more "equitable form of globalisation".
Manchester United provided two of the campaign's most vocal activists, in Gary Neville and Ryan Giggs. Alex Ferguson, a former trade union rep, put his money where his mouth was. Sadly, none of the rest of the squad paid up.
It makes me feel better about hating Chelsea.
Devrim
16 May, 2007 - 08:37
#2
Oh yeah, I don't think it has any political interest. It's only interest is as a part of the soap opera that is football.
Devrim
17 May, 2007 - 13:58
#3
i love the mayday for nurses website, it has an email address for media inquiries, but none for nurses applying for the hardship funds. they definately have their priorities right.
17 May, 2007 - 14:16
#4
I dunno, it's a crock of shit but they atleast say openly that footballers donating money isn't going to fix the problem and it's just about using them as media magnets.
31 May, 2007 - 13:47
#5
Even correspondents in the Nursing Standard think its a patronising and ridiculous campaign. Mind you the NS is getting better weekly. Even normally conservative columnists are calling for action on wages and conditions, and last week there was a glowing report about the Irish nurses ind action!
Oh, and yet another plug 
That campaign is still about the stupidest thing ever.