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The Premier League are pushing ahead with their plans to complete the 2019/20 season despite other Europeans Leagues having already admitted defeat.

Both Ligue 1 in France and the Dutch Eredivise have decided to call time on the current campaign as a result of the current pandemic. Still, those in charge of England's top flight insist they plan to complete their programme with several clubs - including West Ham - having resumed training this week.

Yet according to one of United's most decorated players, football should be one of the last things on anyone's mind given the current situation in which an estimated 40,000 people have already lost their lives in England alone.




"Football isn’t that important at the moment," 'Devo' told the Maidenhead Advertiser. "Not when you’ve got thousands of people dying. I’m not really in the mood to talk about football; it’s not important.

"People are dying all the time and I don’t think we should be talking football. That’s how I see it. Let’s get everyone healthy and then we can worry about football after that."

And 64-year-old Devonshire - who is five years into his second spell as manager of National League side Maidenhead United - believes that, under no circumstances, should football resume while there is still a threat to the health of society as a whole.

"Everyone’s got their own agenda, but those agendas shouldn’t come into it," he said. "Football doesn’t really matter at the moment, and I don’t really have anything else to say on it when people are dying. I’m more worried about people’s health.

"Of course I’m missing it, it’s my job. But I’m more worried about other things at the moment. We’re in a strange world and I'm the same as everyone else; I just want to see some light at the end of the tunnel."




Devonshire has spent the last 25 years pf his career as a manager, but has never been given a chance to test his skillset at a Football League club. Beginning at Osterly and then Brentford's Women's team, the former England winger started his first spell at Maidenhead in 1996.

After seven years in the post he joined Hampton & Richmond Borough where he spoend the next eight years, before joining Braintree Town in 2011. Following four years at Cressing Road he returned to Maidenhead, where he is currently employed.

Devonshire continues to supplement his wages by appearing frequently at football functions.

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