BBC sports editor Dan Roan says while elite sport is not yet in the "last-chance saloon", there are "no guarantees" with "patience wearing thin". Players and staff at English Football League clubs will now be given coronavirus tests twice a week to help find asymptomatic cases earlier. Certainly, football can ill afford any more high-profile breaches of the guidelines by players when away from their clubs. Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola voiced similar concerns, saying: "When one guy scores a goal, I don't know if they can be controlled and not celebrate it. "The joy to celebrate it, I don't know if [a player] is going to think: 'I cannot hug my mate for two, three seconds'."

Source: BBC January 11, 2021 15:03 UTC