Harry Flowers admits he could face a 'long spell out of football'

The big defender had spent the season on loan with Tiernan Lynch's side from Solihull Moors of the National League.

But that was brought to an end last week as his loan deal expired with football in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

To make matters worse for the 23-year-old his contract with his parent club has also expired.

So he headed back to England to face an uncertain future with clubs not in a position to ofer deals due to the current crisis.

In an interview with Sky Sports Flowers knows he won't be the only footballer to be left with no job or income.

"It's worrying," he told reporter James Cooper. "I probably count myself quite lucky that I haven't got a family to put food on the table for, because I imagine that if you have then it's tough, you're in a position where you're not just thinking about yourself, you've got to think about everyone else around you.

"But I can imagine there'll be a lot of players in this position in the next couple of months and that'll be in a lot worse off position that me."

For the first time in his career Flowers has been left without a club. He contacted the Professional Footballers Association straightaway, and with lower league players' contracts set to expire on June 30th he is expecting them to be inundated very soon.

"That was one of my first things, obviously, speak to the PFA and just see what they said about the whole situation," he said.

"And the person that I spoke to did mention that I wasn't the first person to call and I probably won't be the last.

"Obviously there's nothing in place, the government haven't put anything in place for lads out of contract in terms of football.

"It's going to be tough for everyone, there's going to be a big pool of players who are out of contract, clubs are going to want to cut costs and budgets are obviously going to be smaller next season, there's no doubt about that.

"So there's going to be a lot of people in this situation, and it'll be interesting to see how people go about it in terms of when leagues start again.

"I'm out of contract and teams aren't in a position to offer contracts, and it looks at this moment in time as though it could be a long spell without football."