Tuesday’s Carabao Cup match expected to be cancelledMansfield, Orient’s opponents last Saturday, plan complaintThe majority of Leyton Orient’s first team squad have tested positive for Covid-19, leading to the expectation that their Carabao Cup game at home to
Tottenham on Tuesday will be called off, with a decision set for the morning, and serious questions being asked about the biosecurity of League Two.
The testing of players is not mandatory in the English
Football League – as it is in the
Premier League – with the authorities content to insist on stringent hygiene measures and work-place social distancing. They say that the evidence shows there is a minimal risk of transition of the virus via training and playing outdoors.