Coronavirus forcing English football into reckoning as Steve Bruce says it is ‘morally wrong’ to keep playing

After a string of postponed games and dozens of players going into self-isolation and with a new, more infectious strain of the virus on the rise, English football faces a COVID-19 reckoning.

The UK recorded 68,000 positive tests and a new record of 1,325 COVID-19 deaths on Friday.

Leaders have issued warnings hospitals are at risk of being overwhelmed.

But English professional sporting competitions have been permitted to keep playing while the rest of the country is unable to head into work or go to school.

Newcastle manager Steve Bruce says it is “morally” wrong for games to continue and West Bromwich Albion’s Sam Allardyce says a two-week “circuit breaker” should be considered.

But Spurs boss Jose Mourinho says postponing any more games…