WITH Coronavirus threatening lives and livelihoods, footballers aren’t getting much sympathy at the moment.
When people think of football – and I include the government in this – they tend to focus on the millions and billions of pounds splashing around the Premier League. What they don’t realise is that probably 80 percent of professional players in this country are living week to week and month to month.
I know, because I’ve been there. When I managed Blackpool in the mid-nineties, the lads used to run to the bank on a Friday afternoon to see if their wages h...