Expect Gareth Southgate to be tactful and circumspect when the question of unvaccinated players crops up at his England press conference on Friday. He's ventured into the swamp occupied by the anti-vaxxers once before, contributing to a video supporting the vaccination programme, and got dog's abuse. That's how it is with the more rabid element.
But it doesn't require much imagination to know what Southgate probably feels about the fact that at least five of the current England squad have not been vaccinated. And that not one player, with the exception of Tammy Abraham on Wednesday, has been willing even to state that they have received the two Covid jabs.