BURNLEY, England: Alastair Campbell, the former press chief of ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair, says criticism of footballers has been unfair ...
BURNLEY, England: Alastair Campbell, the former press chief of ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair, says criticism of footballers has been unfair during the coronavirus pandemic, but the game's leaders needed to chart a better way of handling the crisis.
"I think footballers as a breed have been very harshly treated on this. I know a lot of footballers and managers and Ok some of them are their own worst enemy, some of them aren’t very nice people and some of them are very greedy, but most of them in my experience are not," he told Reuters. "I feel sorry for footballers, they are young men who are very good at football... Why do we expect them to be able to handle difficult, complicated political situations? It’s ridiculous," he said.LACK OF UNITY
"What you need to do when you are in a real crisis mode, is you need to come together and try to work something out together and that is what didn’t happen," he said. "You have to have those discussions but now there ought to be a possibility of all of them, not with 100 people on the call, but a smaller number of people, saying 'we have got a bit of a problem here, how do we iron it out? What is the best thing to do?'"
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