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Ban post-match pizza, personalised water bottles and don't touch the taps: The 12-step plan the PFA have handed footballers to help stop the spread of coronavirus

The Professional Footballers' Association have launched their plan to help players avoid spreading the coronavirus, releasing a 12-point strategy to stop the disease disrupting the game.

There have been 383 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the UK, with six deaths, and it is having an increasing impact on sport around the world. The Premier League looks set to remain largely unaffected for the time being, although Arsenal's trip to Manchester City on Wednesday night became the first to be postponed due to fears around the coronavirus.

Now players have received advice from the PFA on how to avoid the coronavirus and not spread it among team-mates, with the first point insisting that they use their own water bottles during games and to not share their towels or robes either.