Thread by @ChrisElderwood

1/6 I was trying to get my head around this ludicrous £22Bn figure for the non-functional Track&Trace app.
I'm still not sure how you physically spend that amount of money on ANYTHING!
So I tried to find a way to understand it.
A Billion is 1,000 Million. Thus 22Bn is 22,000 Mil.

2/6 I thought about sports cars, property, yachts. None of these felt like a common enough denominator for a Joe Schmo like me to truly understand. Then, it hit me. Football!
I could buy a Club!
Now, we generally accept footballers are paid 'disgusting' amounts of £ these days.

3/6 So my first thought was could I buy, for instance, the full 25man MCFC squad?
To my surprise, I could. Easily. A snip at a mere £810.9m from my 22,000M budget. Is that all?!
How many more? The Mirror has my back!
mirror.co.uk/sport/football…

4/6 For the same cash spent on a failed T&T app, you could buy all 20 squads in the Premier League!

ALMOST 4 TIMES OVER!!!

Alternatively...
£6Bn for all the players. Where to play them?
Add Spurs and Arsenals grounds + Wembley for less than £3Bn inclusive (most pricey 3 in UK).

5/6 You could build a copy of The Shard to house them if you wanted. That should only cost around £0.5Bn to build.
Something to play for? The Jules Rimet trophy is pocket change at £20M!
20xTour bus? ManU's was 400K in 2018, so a fleet for £8M.
Domestic TV rights? £3Bn!

6/6 All that, and you have still only spent around half of your £22Bn budget!
Happy days! ⚽️+💰 =👍🏻

Unless of course you're the UK in a pandemic that desperately needs a working T&T app. One that costs ungodly sums & still wont work, run by Serco.

Oh well, I guess I can dream!

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