'I can't speak highly enough of everyone who works at this football club' - Nicky Adams in awe of Cobblers' community work

Cobblers captain Nicky Adams has paid tribute to the club's fantastic community work during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

It's now over a month since all football in England was suspended but the Cobblers have been making good use of their free time by supporting vulnerable people within the local community.

The club have also been looking after their own employees with chairman Kelvin Thomas promising to pay 100 per cent of wages for all staff for as long as possible.

"There's really good people at the club all the way through it and the chairman epitomises that," said Adams. "I can't speak highly enough of everyone who works at the club and it goes all the way through because it's just full of really good people.

"The media guys have done a great job in wishing people well and arranging phone calls to the fans and stuff like that.

"So many people are missing football at the moment and these are obviously difficult times but Northampton Town as a club is run by so many good people and the little things make such a big difference for people."

Adams has made his fair share of phone calls to people in the local community and he says it's the least he and the rest of the squad can do.

"We don't see it as a chore," he added. "When the media people phone us to ask us to do stuff, we don't see it as an hindrance or anything like that. We'll do it, no problem, because we know how hard they're working and how important it is.

"Right from the bottom to the top of the club, people have taken their time to do things for fans and people in the community who are in such a difficult situation. I take my hat off to them all and it makes a massive difference.

"We're a big club and for me we don't deserve to be in League Two but it's up to us on the pitch to try and get us out of the division.

"But it's still a big club and you see fans travel up and down the country and I think the fans appreciate what we're doing for them and what the media guys have done.

"The gaffer, the chairman and the staff have done all they can to put a smile on people's faces and I think they'll love the club even more for that. I can't speak highly enough of everyone at the club."

Adams, who initially left Northampton in 2016 to head back up north for family reasons, says the club's terrific work during the coronavirus shows why he made the decision to return last summer.

"It was a difficult decision to leave in the first place because I had one of my best ever seasons in football playing for one of the teams in the club's history," admitted the 33-year-old.

"We knew Chris Wilder was going to leave that summer and he's gone onto brilliant things but the new manager then came in and had new ideas.

"When I spoke to the chairman at the time and I explained to him that I'm going to have to leave and go back north due to the circumstances, he was totally understanding and he was so helpful.

"Then, when I came back last summer, the manager had a massive part to play but if you add the mix of the manager, the chairman and the club itself, it was a no-brainer for me.

"There'll be a time in the future when I might not be at Northampton and that's just football, but one thing I will say is that I will always hold the club, the chairman and the people who work here in such high regard because of how they've treated me and how they've treated all the players.

"In these difficult times, it's being proved what good people work here."