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Wednesday, February 03, 2021

The Whole Thing Has Become A Farce Said Cox

Kettering manager Paul Cox believes that the whole situation around whether or not the National League should finish the season has become a farce.

In an interview with the Northampton Telegraph he said 'this all stinks of money being more important than health.'

"We need people to make decisions,”Cox said.

“I have said it before but there are people who are paid to make decisions who aren’t making them and that’s causing more frustration.

“A lot has been talked about when it comes to money and financing clubs but a lot of the health and safety and duty of care has gone under the table.

“I think a lot of people have forgotten there is a pandemic that none of us will probably experience again in our lifetime.

"Thousands of people are dying and there is a lockdown and we have this ‘elite’ status but we have not been brought into line with that ‘elite’ tag we have got.

“I feel like we have been let down. If we are the National League and North and South and we are ‘elite’ then why shouldn’t we have the duty of care and be tested twice a week like the EFL?

“All the talk has been about money and I will 100 per cent back our club in whatever it does.

“I just think the whole thing has become a farce. Everyone is looking after themselves when it comes to voting and those at the top of the ladder who really should be making a decision have abstained from that because they don’t want to upset one side or the other.

“If you can’t do that, you shouldn’t be in the job. If you are paid to make big decisions, come to a decision, make it and then we move on.

“But, for me, there is a lot that needs to happen before this starts back and at the top of my list would be the health and well being of the footballers who are going out there every week and travelling up and down the country, mixing regularly but not getting the duty of care that the elite clubs above us are getting.

“They are putting their own health and that of their families on the line, we have to make sure they are looked after first and foremost.

“This all stinks of money being more important than health. I think we have forgotten about a pandemic that is killing a lot of people.

“I understand the money situation but if people want us to continue, there has to be finance to cover the loss of people not being in the ground but, more importantly for this moment in time, finances so that we can test our players and come into line.

“I don’t know if there has to be one disaster for this all to be highlighted.

“I love football, I have been involved in it professionally since I was 16 but I think there are people with blinkers on at the moment who are looking at their own gain rather than the sport as a whole.”