Game needs to unite over virus crisis not blame players - Campbell

Alastair Campbell, the former press chief of ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair, says criticism of footballers has been unfair during the coronavirus pandemic, but the game's leaders needed to chart a better way of handling the crisis.

This has led to calls from some politicians for the players to do more and prompted some sharp criticism of players as well as those clubs, such as Tottenham Hotspur and Newcastle United, who have furloughed non-playing staff. The players have pointed out that many of them do extensive charity and community work and donate large sums to good causes. Campbell says they should not be expected, as young sportsmen, to be diplomats.

He said, however, that in the current emergency, the Premier League, Football League , Football Association and the players' union had to work together. "This conference call with all the managers, all the captains and all the CEOs... I heard people said that Kevin De Bruyne spoke well, Troy Deeney spoke well and Mark Noble, but other people also told me it was really a bit of a bunfight.

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