Glasgow City boss Scott Booth admits the coronavirus crisis has left his players gutted as the football season was forced into a shutdown.

And with a Champions League quarter-final tie against Wolfsburg on the horizon, he can understand his player’s frustrations. 

But the gaffer of dominant City, who have won 13 Scottish Women’s Premier League titles in a row, insists football is the least of his worries at the minute when lives are at stake. 

Booth told Herald and Times sport: “I will just be happy if we all come out of this and come through the other side and are able to continue as a squad and keep fighting for all the trophies that we go for. 

“It would be really sad for the girls if they weren’t able to go into the quarter final of a Champions League after working so hard to get there.

“But there are bigger things at stake. It is disappointing without a doubt and the girls deserve the chance to go and enjoy it.

“It’s the chance to do something that for our club is an amazing achievement and it is sad that we are not able to follow through on that and enjoy the moment.

“It’s very difficult times for everyone and I think the thing is for me, although we all love our sport, at this time there is just so much going on and bigger things that need to take precedence. It feels so surreal.”

Ex-Aberdeen star Booth confirmed that City have stopped all forms of training in line with SFA guidance and his players are being urged to do all they can at home to keep themselves ticking over. 

He continued: “It’s not holiday that’s for sure. The thing is with the girls they are really professional and they want to be training. 

“We’re making sure the players are staying away from each other, they are doing individual training programmes.

“They are all tailored to the girls individually in terms of if they have access to their own private gym or whether they have any equipment at all. We then look at if they have room to do some ball work and they can of course still run and keep their fitness up. 

“They are all fitted with GPS so they are being tracked by our sports science guy Andy White. He’s the sports science guy for the women’s international squad when they go away on trips. 

“He’s set them a weekly programme and they have to do it as best they can. They send the GPS indications into him and he processes it before getting back to me.”

Football in Scotland has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic with clubs like Hearts and Dumbarton cutting player and staff wages in order to stable the ship financially. 

There’s no hint of any losses at the time being for City and Booth reckons the fact his team don’t rely on the men’s game to supply funds will help them moving forward into the future.

He added: “It’s hard in every working environment at the moment with regard to finances. And you can imagine how difficult it is having to just stop flat, it’s going to affect things.

“The thing about Glasgow City is that we’ve always been self-sufficient, we’re not a club who have to rely on money from the men’s side of the game. That will help, but that said these are unparallel times in terms of even being able to handle the finances of a business. 

“It’s tough and it’s all up in the air, but I think just everyone is just doing the same thing in taking each day and week as it comes and see where it leads.

“If we can do that along with other clubs and other working environments do the same then we’ve done well as people.”