Greenwood and Foden breach quarantine, sent home

England duo of Phil Foden and Mason Greenwood have been sent home from the England camp as the rest of the squad prepare for Tuesday’s UEFA Nations League clash versus Denmark. The two players will be returning to England after breaching quarantine rules in Iceland.

England manager, Gareth  Southgate is still working his way through the facts before he decides any further action against the pair, and he says “nobody from outside our party has been into the areas of the hotel we are occupying”.
“We have to treat every incident repeatedly. These are two boys I don’t know particularly well at the moment so I cannot speak in great depth,” Southgate said in a press conference on Monday.
“I’ve got to try to speak with them later in the appropriate way. They have apologised but everything has happened so quickly and we have to get to the facts.
“This is the job [England manager] like no other. All management roles are difficult and this is another level, in terms of what you have to deal and what is expected. The players who have been with us for a long time know exactly what is expected. Whenever people have stepped across that line when they have been with us we have dealt with it appropriately, but we cannot act on things that happen when they are not with us.”

Southgate also added that it is a serious situation.
“It is a very serious situation and we have treated it that way. I have spent the morning dealing with this and then helping the coaches take training in preparation for the game tomorrow.
“They have been naive and we have dealt with it appropriately. I recognise their age, but of course, the whole world is dealing with this pandemic and there is a responsibility on all ages that they do their part. 
“We are not underestimating how important it is we keep the bubble the way we have.”

Asked how this would affect both players’ international careers, Southgate added: “All of those things are too early until I’m totally aware of every situation. I’m a father of young adults and I know they can get things wrong. We are not excusing that in this instance and we have to assess everything else moving forward.
“Unfortunately this morning, it was brought to my attention that two of the boys have broken the Covid-19 guidelines, in terms of our secure bubble. So we had to decide very quickly that they couldn’t have any interaction with the rest of the team and wouldn’t be able to train. Given the procedures we have to follow now they will have to travel back to England separately.”