Piers Morgan has heaped praise on Leeds United’s Championship rivals West Bromwich Albion for their stance on paying staff during the coronavirus pandemic.
The Baggies yesterday released a club statement in which they announced that they do not plan to place any staff on furlough.
They also announced that their chief executive, Mark Jenkins, would be taking no pay while the UK is in lockdown.
Jenkins said: "We are in a crisis which peace-time football has never had to face before and there is no way of knowing precisely what we will have to tackle further along the road.
"All I can promise is that everything we do in the weeks to come will be designed to ensure our club is in as strong a position as it has been possible to secure when football resumes."
Good Morning Britain host Morgan praised Jenkins and his club, who sit one point and one place behind Leeds in the table, for their stance amid the Covid-19 crisis sweeping the country.
"It is disgusting what is going on at Liverpool and Tottenham and Newcastle and some others," Morgan said, relating to the fact that those clubs decided to furlough non-playing staff under the government's Coronavirus Job Retention scheme - a move that has drawn criticism across the country.
Morgan added: "On the other side it's brilliant what is happening at clubs like West Brom.
"They don't have anything like that kind of money, don't have billionaire owners and are doing the right thing.
"The fans can drive this because fans are sitting at home watching this and going 'really?' American billionaires making the British taxpayer pay the staffing costs at a club like Liverpool?"
