Originally Posted by
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But, footballers did their bit during World War 2.
Liverpool, just 7 weeks after announcing a £42m profit, have furloughed non-playing staff. At the same time, they are paying players £150,000 a week.
Levy has taken a modest pay cut. He is still earning millions of pounds a year. His club plays in a ground that cost £1bn to build. He has furloughed his non-playing staff.
Vincent Tan, net worth $1.5bn. Recently sold $55m of shares in an American football club. Has no interest in football, yet spends a lot of money on football. He has furloughed his non-playing staff.
If you don't think this will have an affect on people's appetite for football where some are losing jobs, some are losing family members, some are losing sons and daughters then I think you'll be mistaken.
We're mostly pulling together to get through this. There is a sense of community. Going back to managers complaining about referees, and Gary Linekar/Alan Shearer talking about it as if it really really matters, players cheating, millionaire players sulking because they want to earn £10,000 more a week at a different club, agents taking millions, and TV companies spending billions, and a tournament that is still set to be spread across an entire continent. Doesn't this seem irrelevant yet?