Peter Coates laughs out loud at the suggestion he could be about to be told to stay in isolation for a few months. Stoke City's 82-year-old owner is a billionaire, but that's not what tickles his funny bone about the prospect of being plunged into solitude while the world tries to tackle coronavirus.
The thought of daughter Denise – the world's best paid woman – sliding pizza slices under his door isn't lost on a man born into abject poverty.
Coates admits he hasn't many answers as to the way forward for football, business or the world in general, but you can't help but be armed by his observation that we'll all get over it.
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