It must be very easy being a Covid safety officer. Don’t have to patrol, don’t have to investigate, don’t have to follow tips, make raids, keep ‘em peeled or have so much as an ear to the ground. Just sign up to Instagram.
It’s all on there. The parties, the raves, the transgressions, major and minor. If the rule-breaking wasn’t infuriating enough, what must a club, or a coach, make of the sheer idiocy of posting pictures and placing illegal events in the public domain?
Everyone involved must have known what they were doing was wrong. There is not a club in the country that is not reminding its players, daily, of their responsibilities, as Pep Guardiola insisted was the case at Manchester City.