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JONATHAN WALTERS - PLAYER'S VIEW: The game must not be driven by money even though we all want football back... safety comes first

We all want football back. It unites us more than anything else across the world.

But what makes it acceptable for players, managers and staff to return when the rest of the country is still in lockdown and standing two metres apart in the supermarket queue?

Players will want to get back, we all want some normality in our lives again. But we are still getting daily briefings telling us that another 700 people have passed away. If this is still going on, we surely cannot just pretend that it’s all going to be fine.

We all want football back because it can unites us more than anything else across the world

I know the Premier League, as the Bundesliga have done, will do all they can to keep players from contracting it with tests and distancing where possible.