The Premier League stood accused of moral bankruptcy on Wednesday night as its clubs pocketed tax-payers’ money for non-football staff while continuing to pay players more than £100,000-a-week.
Julian Knight, chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee told Sportsmail that clubs like Tottenham Hotspur and Newcastle United, now joined by Norwich City in pursuing £2,500-a-month public money for non-playing staff, had lost sight of the real world.
Knight said: ‘What sticks in the throat is to see players at home collecting large sums of money while relying on taxpayers to meet 80 per cent [of salaries under the furlough scheme.