The football season was on the brink of collapse last night as the game braced itself for a stern warning from the Government following another weekend of Covid breaches.
With Aston Villa’s Premier League match tomorrow at home to Tottenham postponed — and Fulham angry at being asked to play Spurs instead — it can be revealed that the FA will write to remind clubs to stay within strict protocols after the FA Cup third round was marred by several incidents of rule-breaking.
The Government are coming under pressure to address football’s continuation after Labour said it was ‘increasingly difficult’ to make a case for elite sport to be exempt from lockdown rules.