Premier League clubs have bought their own coronavirus tests - over fears their players would be forced to play behind closed tours.
Despite tests for COVID-19 being so hard to come by for the country’s frontline NHS medical workers, England’s football elite have had no problems testing their staff.
But the idea they may have batches of the precious tests stored away has been vehemently denied. Brighton chief executive Paul Barber explained his club, who have had two players test positive, were merely thinking ahead of the game last month amid concerns football would continue during lockdown.
In those circumstances, the testing of players would be imperative, according to Barber, who added that nobody in the game wanted the NHS to have to