EFL: More Covid-19 tests needed, a milestone win and a bittersweet hat-trick

Oxford United manager Karl Robinson has called for more Covid-19 testing for English Football League clubs after his side's match with Crewe Alexandra was called off less than an hour before kick-off.

The game was postponed after Crewe's Omar Beckles received a positive test result on Saturday morning.

Tests cost about £100 per person, a price which is prohibitive to some clubs who have little income as they are unable to play in front of ers because of the rise in coronavirus cases.

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"I want to carry on playing, but the testing has to be correct for us to carry on playing," Robinson said.

It is not mandatory for EFL clubs to test staff, but Robinson wants football authorities to help pay for more testing in order to keep players safe.

"It seems to be that the wealth of certain organisations is going before the health of the players," he told BBC Radio Oxford.

"I can't sit here any more and protect people. The fluffy guidelines we that we get, the inconsistency we're getting with the testing protocols, the PFA (Professional Footballers' Association) are doing absolutely nothing and not once ed us.

"It might be nice if the PFA phoned us and actually came down and checked our protocols to make sure their players were safe, but that might be a little bit too much hard work for them," Robinson added.

Crewe's squad and coaching staff will all be tested on Sunday or Monday. Meanwhile, no new date has been confirmed for the match.

"We've either got the option of individually testing and making sure that clubs are, for want of a better word 'clean' going into every fixture, and every training session, or we have to take the complete opposite stance and acknowledge that it's going to be around and I don't think that's really acceptable for anyone," added Oxford captain John Mousinho.

"The funding is the problem, it's a real issue and where that's going to come from because the cost of testing is just astronomical."

When Neil Warnock first took charge of a football match, Margaret Thatcher was prime minister, Argentina were holders of the World Cup (for the first time) and Moscow had just hosted the Olympics.

Fast forward four decades, 16 clubs and 18 different stints as a boss and the 71-year-old Yorkshireman has taken charge of his 1,500th game - and came away with three points.

The Middlesbrough manager guided his side to a 2-1 victory over Barnsley - their first win of the season and first at the Riverside Stadium since 26 December last year.

It moved Boro up to 10th in the Championship after four games as Warnock tries to spread the stardust that has seen him get the likes of Cardiff, Sheffield United, Notts County and QPR promoted to the top flight.

It was also a return to the dugout for Warnock after a positive test for coronavirus.

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