Football has consumed my life and I miss it more than ever. Although my priority is the well-being of loved ones, I also find myself thinking how these awful times can change our beautiful game for the better.
We’ve already seen good and bad in our industry. From my experience, footballers do step up when needed and it’s no surprise to me that Jordan Henderson and other Premier League captains have been looking at ways to use their financial power to help the NHS and charities.
But there has been a great negative as well with Newcastle, Tottenham and, I’m sorry to say, my club Liverpool using the Government’s furlough scheme to pay cleaners and other non-playing staff.