This is the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.

Well, there might not be any games to report on at the moment, but certainly there's no shortage of football

news and another story has emerged today from Liverpool they have announced they'll

be following non-playing members of the club staff we reckon it's about half of the staff overall.

Basically what it means is that certainly in the UK, the government to

Furlow Initiative means that people who are laid off or are unable to work because the coronavirus outbreak.

They will have 80% of their wage paid by the government up to the value of £2,500.

Liverpool have announced they're taking advantage of this scheme and they will also then pay,

the club itself will pay the extra 20% of these people who are put out of work temporarily

will get 100% of their wage so for them this is good however for in the general scheme of things

certainly terms of the PR we saw that Tottenham made a similar decision earlier this week

Norwich Newcastle have done the same thing if there's one or two other clubs may have done it as well.

It's the fact that should a millionaire club that's run by millionaires or even billionaires such as

Liverpool should they be taking advantage of an initiative that is basically

aimed to help people who perhaps are struggling to get their wage because of the coronavirus outbreak?

I mean it's a difficult one, it's polarized polarized certainly Liverpool fans and I'd imagine

fans from most of the clubs who haven't yes revealed what or made clear what their

approach is going to be because we have to accept that perhaps football isn't going to be around for a couple

of months yet and a lot of people will be temporarily sidelined.

So fans of these clubs are taking a certain moral high ground.

You can't blame them to be honest because as I say it's a very

polarizing decision I mean Liverpool paying the extra 20% is good for the people

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