Somebody wrote this in the comments section of an article about soccer starting back up in England;
Posted by
Loyola
May 2 '20, 14:18
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"It's not *just* football though, is it? It's an industry on which employs, indirectly and directly, hundreds of thousands of people. It's all well and good saying everything must stop, but if clubs start going bust - lots of people are going to be screwed. And I don't mean footballers. Publicans, people who sell T shirts, taxi drivers, pie shops, chippys etc etc.
I have to work. I'm a teacher and, regardless of what people seem to think, schools aren't closed. They're just closed to the vast majority. I think a multi billion pound industry, with loads of options to explore, can come up with a safe way of playing a few games. Everyone can be tested, everyone can isolate. It can be done.
As for the it's not the right time thing. I'd be absolutely delighted to have something to take my mind off having to go to look after the children of doctors and nurses and coming home to my infant son and wife. I'm not tested. I'm not looked after. But I'm expected to carry on. Football can find a solution that costs no more than an average midfielder for a top 10 club."
Not sure of the merits of it, but writing from the heart is powerful.
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