Published: November 13, 2018
• Amateurs’ allowance does not stretch to burger and chips
• Professional players are not paid for international matches
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• Professional players are not paid for international matches
If Eddie Jones’s warning that they will be “physically smashed” against England on Saturday was not jarring enough for Japan’s players, their coach has revealed his squad are being paid only £13.64 a day (2,000 yen) to represent their country.
That amount does not even cover a steak (£19.45) or burger with chips (£13.75) at their trendy south-west London hotel and is a lot less than England’s 23-man squad who are on £25,000 a match per man.
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