Leeds United's Patrick Bamford sums up how we're all feeling during pandemic - Graham Smyth

In fact Bamford summed up the unique and individual challenges faced by us all with a word he used during an appearance on the radio earlier this week – uncertainty.

What makes this pandemic and the enormous changes to our daily routines so hard to wrap your head around is how open-ended everything is.

Some of us don’t know when we’ll be able to work from our offices again, embrace loved ones, sit in the pub with friends or take the kids to a playground.

The vulnerable have to endure a far more serious kind of uncertainty, given the risk to their life that coronavirus presents.

And some don’t know where the money to pay the bills is going to come from, how they will feed their children or if the business they strived for years to establish will survive the next few weeks.

We all have things that might not be important at all in the grand scheme, things that just have to be sacrificed because this is the United Kingdom’s current reality, but things that matter to us on some personal level.

However the crisis is affecting you is important and noteworthy, because it impacts your life and potentially robs you of your peace and ushers in anxiety. No one should have to apologise for talking about or naming the ways in which this worldwide maelstrom has turned them upside down, even if they seem small or insignificant next to another person’s circumstances.

It has started to feel a little like football has had to become apologetic for its very existense during these weird, weird times.

Players, managers, chief executives and owners have all gone to great lengths to point out there are ‘more important things’ – perhaps because it is fact, perhaps out of fear of someone accusing them of not having their priorities straight.

Football’s place in the pecking order of daily life has, of course, slipped but it still does have a place.

For Bamford, it is his life and whatever happens to football, or the current season, will impact his life directly.

Footballers, even in the Championship, can earn more in a week than many, many people will in a year but everyone lives according to their means and bills still need to be paid, so even wage deferrals, which are now being discussed for big earners at many Championship clubs including Leeds United, will cause uncertainty in the short term at least.

For club owner Andrea Radrizzani – who has been banging the drum for coronavirus to be taken seriously for weeks – there is money at stake when it comes to Leeds United and how this season concludes, his own money.

For chief executive Angus Kinnear there is a business and a staff of hundreds to consider and for Marcelo Bielsa, a football team who still need looking after, still need input and instruction, ahead of whatever fixtures come next, whenever that may be.

These people are all human and, like the rest of us, all dealing with the mind-bending situation we find ourselves in.

They also still have jobs to do – discussions still need to take place around the resolution of the 2019/20 season and Leeds still need to state their case for sporting integrity.

Football is a business that cannot simply stop, too many lives are affected by its absence, too many employed by its clubs.

But football can play a part in alleviating some of the uncertainty for society’s vulnerable during this period and it already has, noteably in Leeds where players have donated to a foodbank and the club has emptied its food supplies so Holbeck Together can continue to deliver food to local people who need it.

It’s heartening to see and worthy of recognition.

And so is the fact that football, Bamford, Bielsa, Radrizzani, you and I – we’re all affected by this in some way. So let’s keep talking about it, unapologetically. We’re all in the same boat named uncertainty.