'Players were in tears': what it was really like as Macclesfield collapsed

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Club’s former full-back and PFA delegate James Pearson on training, money and mental health issues amid the crisis

When James Pearson was coming round from knee surgery in hospital last November, it was a case of getting straight to work. As the Professional Footballers’ Association delegate at Macclesfield Town, a liaison between union and dressing room, unpaid wages meant more chasing. It was a prime example of the destabilising financial chaos that put paid to the club. “I was in bed on the phone to the players, the PFA, corresponding with the owner, talking about why we hadn’t been paid,” he says.

 

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