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MARTIN SAMUEL: Quarantine exemption for footballers just does not fly... the sport has to address this growing wave of ignorance before it can expect favours from on high

It does not sound much, 16 positives from 3,060 tests last week. Just over half of one per cent, 0.52.

Yet the Premier League used to do better than that. Just two positives, just a single positive, sometimes no positives at all.

The contagiousness of the Delta variant, increased testing, there are many reasons why football may be turning up more Covid positives these days.

Liverpool blocked four stars, including Mohamed Salah, from travelling to red-listed countries

And the number of people testing positive throughout the UK is 1.28 per cent.

Football as an industry is doing better than most. Even so, special Government dispensation for footballers to be quarantine exempt?