If you want to see how a decision has been received, turn to social media. Within 24 hours of Liverpool revealing they had chosen to furlough a significant number of staff, mobile phones were lighting up with images to deride the club.
There was a picture of Jurgen Klopp tapping the famous 'This is Anfield' sign. Nothing unusual in that, you may think, but the image had been doctored with Margaret Thatcher replacing the liver bird. Another showed a flag of Liverpool's famous managers with the Chancellor Rishi Sunak added to it.