For a long time, Andy Holt was a voice crying in the wilderness. The owner of Accrington Stanley warned and warned that the financial model of English football was broken and that a reckoning was coming. No one foresaw the advent of the coronavirus, of course, but its devastating impact has brutally exposed the recklessness in the top tiers of the English game.
Accrington has a claim to be the best-run club in the lower leagues but even those clubs run with fiscal prudence have not been spared.
After the Premier League re-iterated on Friday its determination to complete the current season, it increased the likelihood the Football League will attempt to do the same.