Football is irrelevant at this time – Defoe
Ex-Sunderland striker Jermain Defoe insists football has to take a back seat as Scotland deals with the coronavirus pandemic.
The game has been suspended since March 13 due to the health crisis, with no firm date set for its return. And at 37 years of age, Defoe knows time is not on his side in regards to the rest of his career but he stressed that football has become unimportant amid a rising death tally due to the virus.
"To be honest, there are more important things happening in the world than football," said Defoe.
"People are dying every day which is such a sad thing, it puts things into perspective and you think, you know what, football is not important at all at this moment in time.
"The most important thing is the people who are actually suffering and the families that are losing loved ones.
"Of course we are all missing the beautiful game. I am missing the Rangers fans and, like I said before, my teammates and hopefully we will be back playing soon."
Defoe who has played for West Ham, Tottenham and Sunderland among others, claims Rangers have ‘done wonders’ in keeping the squad ticking over in terms of their fitness regimes during extraordinary circumstances.
He said :" Luckily enough we have a group chat and it is quite funny. We all stick together on that. The club have done wonders to be honest. The sport science is on another level. Jordan Milsom is unbelievable. He was at Liverpool with the manager.
“We have an app where we have individual programmes and everything goes back to the sports science team so they know what we are doing."