Players' Union This was the second attempt at the unionisation of professional football players after the failure of the Association Footballers' Union which dissolved itself in 1901. This Union was formed because the Football League had ratified a maximum wage for footballers in 1901 at £4 ("2012: £") . This severely limited the opportunity to earn wages that allowed the best players in the country to forgo the need to take paid employment outside of football. Until then, individual clubs had set their own wage policies throughout the country. The Union, basically, led from where the previous AFU had left the situation:
Ludo Van der Heyden made an Officer of the Order of Leopold by the King of Belgium in 1996. In 2006 he was created an Honorary Alumnus of INSEAD. He has earned a number of Outstanding MBA Teaching Awards at INSEAD, as well as several Outstanding Service Awards to INSEAD's Executive Education. Ludo Van der Heyden Ludo Van der Heyden is a management thinker, educator, and adviser. He is a professor at INSEAD, where he has served as co-Dean. He currently holds the INSEAD Chaired Professorship in Corporate Governance, and is a Fellow at CEDEP. His broad research interests are in fair process, leadership,