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Any player earning five bookings from their side's first 19 Premier League matches will serve a one-match ban in the same competition. Yellow cards are not carried over to the EFL Cup or FA Cup. Players who accumulate 10 yellow cards in Premier League matches up to and including their team's...

Agreed - it does seem surprising that across all the Covid-specific meetings clubs must have had over the last 20 months or so, they didn't come up with a ruling on this.

I'll be honest, I'm firmly blaming my son for me catching it. All I've done for him, and he repays me by bringing Covid home from school and giving it to me. Who'd be a parent, eh?

Sorry, I don't know anything about the process involved but there does seem to be a difference between the general public and those in elite sport... General public tests positive: 10 days isolation, no re-test. Elite sportsman/woman tests positive: May subsequently be revealed to be a false...

I was going to say something along these lines. In the realms of sport there does seem to be a surprisingly large number of "false positives" that are resolved with repeated re-tests, freeing up the sportsman to play before he otherwise would. Six days will allow for a fair number of re-tests...