Football clubs step up help for communities as coronavirus bites

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Prevented from plying their usual trade by the coronavirus pandemic, English football clubs are turning to their attentions to helping local ...

Liverpool players and the club's foundation have donated £40,000 to a local foodbank. LONDON: Prevented from plying their usual trade by the coronavirus pandemic, English football clubs are turning to their attentions to helping local communities cope with huge disruption to daily life.

Liverpool's players and the club's foundation have contributed £40,000 towards ensuring the foodbank does not run dry at a time of crisis. The foundation's range of programmes in the community, including football coaching, sessions for disabled children and activities for the elderly have been cancelled.

"We have the ability to call people to maintain that contact. It's going to be challenging for all of us to isolate, but if you are older or living alone that is probably even more stark."At the other end of the Football League pyramid, at the bottom of League Two, Stevenage are doing all they can to help provide for and protect those at risk.

The financial ramifications of a shortened season for clubs in the lower leagues are grave, but Wallace is more concerned with the health and well-being of those in the community."This is a wartime spirit.

 

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