FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - Premier League - Leicester City v Manchester City - King Power Stadium, Leicester, Britain - February 22, 2020 Manchester City's Kevin De Bruyne with the match ball Action Images via Reuters/John Sibley
MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - Among the multitude of viral videos flying around social media during Britain's coronavirus lockdown, is one which ridicules Premier League footballers in a brutal, unsubtle fashion.
Comedian Simon Brodkin parodies a player who, as well as insulting a young kid playing football in the garden, justifies his £200,000 a week salary on the basis that he needs a new car every week before going on to mock the low salaries of NHS nurses and demands they take a pay cut.
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