London — The CEO of English football club Liverpool has offered the club’s stewards to local supermarkets as customers clamber for goods amid the coronavirus outbreak.

“Message to supermarket managers here on Merseyside,” wrote Liverpool Football Club CEO Peter Moore on Twitter. “Our stadium stewards here @LFC are offering their time and expertise in volunteering to help with crowd control, queue management, parking control, assisting the elderly and infirm taking their groceries to their cars, and so on...

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