Jordan Henderson is organising a captain’s fund for the NHS. Manchester United’s players are donating 30 per cent of salary. On Saturday, clubs will approach their playing staff and managers directly by conference call to discuss wage cuts and deferrals.
By his own admission, Gordon Taylor, chairman of the Professional Footballers’ Association, was not the greatest player, but on Friday members of his union finally got the ball at their feet and left him for dead.
If Taylor looked out of touch with the public mood, and reality, earlier in the week, by the end of this weekend he may be wholly redundant.