League One players break ranks to insist football cannot return

Posh insist their entire playing staff wants to re-start the League One season.

But players of other League One clubs are not so sureandacouplebrokeranks this week.

Shrewsbury skipper Dave Edwards said: “There’s no way you can possibly make a player play football in these circumstances.

“Everyone has their own interpretation on how this looks for them, in terms of health and finances etc.

“I wouldn’t be comfortable going back in, not until you know it’s 100 per cent safe to do so.

“I know you can be tested two or three times a week, but how can we justify that when people are struggling to get tests who think they’ve got coronavirus?

“That is a bit of a PR nightmare for the EFL and would come back at them.

“It just seems crazy that we put football ahead of the public health at the moment. We’re in a global pandemic,

“We’ve never witnessed anything like this in our lifetimes before and to think football is more important and needs to be restarted over the next three of four months - when the bigger picture is that we want to get rid of coronavirus – it just seems bizarre that we’re even having the conversation.”

And Southend striker Steve Humphrys said: “I have vested interests in this but let’s be honest footballers are non-essential.

“Football returning shouldn’t be discussed until the number of deaths per day drops hugely.

“NHS staff members and other key workers need protecting.

“Both my sisters are front line NHS workers.”

Dave Edwards