Stars are the easy targets

I FIND it baffling that millionaire footballers continue to be a target for Government ministers and political correspondents yet billionaires in other industries aren’t being told that they need to do more to help the NHS and struggling families and communities.

I guess it’s a tap-in given most players are workingclass, or perhaps it’s because they’re viewed as too foreign or too stupid.

It’s a tap-in for such as arch-critics Matt Hancock and Robert Peston.

What I find so odd about it all, though, is that there are footballers doing plenty to contribute and a lot more of them would have done so if they had been asked.

Many are getting up every day, thinking: ‘If someone had come to me to ask for five ventilators I’d have paid for them, but no one has been in touch to let me know how to go about it.’

Yet what of the other big earners living in exile in Monaco or the Cayman Islands with several times the wealth of football players and many more years of life experience?

GIVEN how the National League flows in and out of the Football League and the Football League flows in and out of the Premier League, I don’t see how we can void it yet.

Noises coming from FIFA suggest the current campaign at elite level will be finished as soon as it is safe to do so.

So it would be ridiculous to have a situation where the Premier League is carrying on in perpetuity, but the National League had been scrapped many months earlier.

I’d like to see all our leagues working towards a June restart and let’s give it a go if we’re told it’s safe to do so.

If the virus returns to any players or there’s another spike, then we will have to seriously look at calling it all off.