Chelsea Women’s captain Magda Eriksson runs along the riverside in Kingston and Hampton Wick as part of her fitness regime during the pandemic lockdown.

Magda, 26, said she is maintaining “a positive spirit” during the crisis, having borrowed a couple of pieces of exercise equipment from the near-deserted Cobham training ground to occupy her time in her flat on the Surbiton/Kingston boundary.

She added her voice to official appeals to stay at home as much as possible and obey social distancing rules. “It means everything,” she said. “We have to stick together as a community and do it together.”

She links up with other Chelsea Women’s squad members via FaceTime, Snapchat and Instagram, and they swap short videos all the time – especially involving pet dogs.

She urges Chelsea fans to stick with the lockdown and be as patient as they possibly can until football resumes.

“We will play football again, and we will achieve amazing things together with Chelsea and the fans,” she adds, in a direct message to the legion of Blues supporters. “It’s just a case of when.”

But the spotlight has now shifted to the public relations disaster that is the Premier League and its millionaire players’ bickering about whether or not to take a pay cut of (in some cases) £60,000 a week while they sit at home playing video games.

After all, that leaves some of the poor lambs on a mere £150,000 a week to grub by on, for doing sweet Fanny Adams.

The squabbling between players, agents, clubs and football bodies must rank as the least edifying spectacle of this whole health crisis, and there is a real risk that public support for former pitch idols will ebb away.

Many Premier League stars earn £230 every 12 minutes. To put that in perspective, it’s what Under 25s on universal credit receive each MONTH.