The plight of central defender Rhys Weston has given a human touch to Dundee FC’s second lurch into administration.
Outside Dens Park on Thursday he described his predicament as “staring down the barrel of a gun.”
Weston said, “It has taken me two years to find a club in Scotland and now this is happening.
“My wife Kaye and son Connor have been living here for the past couple of years while I was at Walsall.
“I have been trying to get up the road to be with them and I finally get a club, then this. It is not done and dusted yet, and we will wait and see what happens, but it is not good.
“It is difficult not just for us as players but the office staff and everyone else as well. We are all in the same boat and the uncertainty is the worst thing. These things happen in life but it is hard when you don’t know what is going on.
“When I came here we were promotion favourites and everything was rosy, but next thing you know we are staring down the barrel of a gun.
“We probably know just as much as you (the media) but the general consensus is it is not good.
“We came close to this sort of thing at Cardiff when I was there between Sam Hamann and Peter Ridsdale, but thankfully it never came to this.
“It is a horrible thing to go through but at least we only have another day to wait before we find out what the future holds.”
The Welsh international praised both Gordon Chisholm Chisholm and Billy Dodds for their conduct during the last few weeks.
“The manager and Doddsy have been great,” he said. “They have had an impossible job in the last few weeks but they have kept the boys together.
“They have told us as much as they know and made sure everyone is kept up to date.
“But nobody has really known what’s going on, so what they have been able to say has been limited. I feel sorry for them because they have done their best in really difficult circumstances.
“There is a game on Saturday and we have to honour our fixtures. Irrespective of who is still here and who is not, there will be a Dundee team on the pitch.”