Hansen's net worth

What to make of the claim that Match of the Day pundit Alan Hansen gets paid quite a hefty sum – about £40,000 a show, to be precise? That is the question most newspaper hacks would have been asking themselves on Sunday, resulting in a colourful array of figures. The Daily Star calculates that Hansen earns a grand total of £1.4m a year for 35 stints on Gary Linekar's sofa. The Daily Mirror prefers to highlight Hansen's £40,000 pay for each show. But the Daily Express shoots for the top corner. It's story says Hansen nets more than £3,000 a minute for each edition of the show. Not bad work if you can get it.