As football continues to adapt to life during the coronavirus pandemic, it is the players, not club bosses and league officials, that will emerge from it all with the most credit.
Widely derided for their wage deferral stand-off with the Premier League and unfairly called out by Health Secretary Matt Hancock during one of the government's daily public press conferences, it is believable that players were beginning to feel like scapegoats to the cause of battling the deadly virus.
'Play your part' was the message from Hancock. It was a not-so-subtle dig and went some way to disregarding all of the charity work players have been doing outside of the exhausting meetings regarding league-wide wage cuts.