An anonymous professional footballer, currently playing in England, offers his insight into what is going on behind the scenes as the sport wrestles with the idea of taking a pay cut amid the coronavirus crisis.
There is a clamour for footballers to cut their wages at the moment but not every one of us is an affluent millionaire.
If you are playing in the lower leagues, you can't afford to take a wage cut.
Some of us are as much living hand to mouth as the people who come to watch us. That doesn't always sit easy with fans but it is a fact now.