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Soccer is somewhat to England what baseball is to the U. S.--the most popular professional sport. Last week, while 23-year-old Joe Di Maggio was demanding more than the $25,000 offered him to play baseball for less than six months this year, British soccer players were engaged in a British version of the American holdout. With businesslike dignity they demanded that their minimum wage be raised from -L-4 to -L-5 ($25) a week and their maximum from -L-8 to -L-9 ($45).

For his -L-8 a week, a top-notch British soccer professional is expected to play two bruising games a week for eight months of the year, is traded from one club to another (sometimes for as much as -L-10,000), may be a hero to 90,000 cheering spectators but can hope for nothing more than his standardized weekly wage.

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