Maybe virus will teach us what is really important – and it isn’t millionaire footballers

Some of these people are earning three or four times what the Prime Minister is earning! In this present crisis, football and other sports are less important to many people.

It is reported that many footballers are refusing to take a 30% pay cut when they are inactive.

Many are millionaires, so 30% of their wages would hardly be missed.

It is about time that there was a pay cap on how much one can earn in football.

They can criticise Matt Hancock all they like for asking them to take a pay cut, but I believe that the majority of people in the UK would agree with him.

Matt Hancock seems to have hit a nerve with some of these footballers and ex-footballers, who have tried to justify themselves by criticising the government throughout the crisis.

If they do not play ball with the clubs, when it comes to renewing their contracts, their salaries should be greatly reduced. Where else in Europe can afford these people and their wage demands?

They are unnecessary luxuries who have been seen for how important they really are in the grand scheme of things. More important to the country are our frontline workers: NHS, shops, delivery drivers, public transport, refuse collection, police, fire brigade and others who deal directly with the public.

Maybe, with God’s help, when we get through this, people will see the important things in life, and football will be relegated to where it should be in people’s priority lists.

John Mulholland, Doagh