MARTIN SAMUEL: There's no reason why football can't continue edging towards recovery... but fail to adhere to the rules and maintain safety, and the game will not return and, more importantly, will not deserve to

Pardoning the pun, it was a very positive test result for the Premier League on Tuesday. Mainly because there were not a whole lot of positive tests.

Just six of 748 taken, spread across three clubs. So, at most, four at any one club. That is still a significant number if the quartet are Mo Salah, Sadio Mane, Jordan Henderson and Virgil van Dijk, but Liverpool, or any rival, would have to be very unlucky to have a bank of their most important players removed by Covid-19 at the same time.