Peter Thomas: Leicester did the right thing - so why is racing under fire again?

The British public's unquestioning loyalty to football never ceases to amaze me. Am I the only person in Britain who remembers that the game's first significant response to Covid-19 was for its players, en bloc, to argue that they shouldn't be subject to salary cuts because it would be very bad for Britain's finances – what with them paying so much money to HMRC every month out of their considerable salaries?

No matter that clubs were furloughing office staff left, right and centre; the Professional Footballers' Association argued with a straight face that its members were doing the nation a favour by continuing to accept full wages for doing, well, sweet FA.

Then along comes Marcus Rashford, a bold and principled man with a belief in free school meals for the poor and disadvantaged, and football clings to his coat-tails on its way to moral redemption.