stick to restrictions — on and off the pitch. our sports editor dan roan has more. sheffield united and newcastle united preparing to play the first of three premier league matches tonight as the season continued, a welcome relief to so many that elite sport has avoided being suspended in this lockdown but for how much longer? the images of players ignoring social distancing rules after fa cup matches at the weekend concerned ministers, who felt they sent out the wrong message but others insist the sport can still be trusted. the exposure and the comments and the explanation of the risks, i think our boys, even with that crazy happiness, of a big day for them, they will control. but with more than 60 league games in england to postpone so far this season england to postpone so far this season due to covid, pressure is building. fulham are furious they

we re building. fulham are furious they were givenjust building. fulham are furious they were given just two days notice ahead of a rearranged match against spurs tomorrow. this is the premier league, one of the best leagues in the world, to confirm that at 9:30am on monday is scandalous, really. for me, this is not acceptable. today, grimsby town became the first english club to be fined for a breach of covid rules. safety protocols and testing regimes has been deemed a success but some now wa nt been deemed a success but some now want the season to stop. halting foot ball want the season to stop. halting football at the moment would send out the right message to the public, especially as footballers are role models so maybe some people seeing that will actually come if the season stops, the government stops the season, it might make the severity of what is going on be more apparent to some people. but for now, the action continues and tonight, finally, a first win of the season tonight, finally, a first win of the season for sheffield united, thanks to billy sharp's penalty. but while the celebrations may have been understandable, strengthened rules

on avoiding contact, including hugs and handshakes, seems to be ignored. despite referees now reminding players of the need to show restraint and warnings of more robust monitoring, there were similar scenes after goals at molineux, where wolves took on everton, and at turf moor where, in the evening's other match, paul pogba's goal sent manchester united to the top of the table for the first time since 2017. the government is not currently minded to add to sport's financial crisis by stopping action like this again but if such celebrations continue, the scrutiny will only intensify. dan roan, bbc news. that's it. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow. with me are the spectator‘s economics correspondent, kate andrews, and labour's former director of communications, lance price. welcome to you both. several titles already in, let's flicked through some of them first of all. "vaccine drive for uk failing to hit target," writes the i. the paper claims official figures show the government is not currently on track to meet its pledge of vaccinating all those in the most at—risk category by the middle of february. some gps have been told to pause covid—19 vaccinations, according to the daily telegraph, due to supply issues and in order to allow other parts of the country to catch up. in other news on the roll—out — the financial times claims borisjohnson clashed with nhs bosses over the pace of the vaccination programme, and that tensions were running high last week. "insult to dignity" — the metro leads on footballer marcus rashford's anger

at the quality of food parcels being given to families who'd normally receive free school meals, saying, "children deserve better than this". he said the meals were woefully inaccurate. alongside a photograph of one of those food packages, the guardian reports on how thousands of hospital patients are set to be discharged early to hotels in order to free up beds for those seriously ill with covid—19. quite a lot to get there, let's start. welcome to you both. shall we kick off with the main splash for the guardian, alongside that extremely strong picture of the woefully inadequate food for children? we will pick up on that in a moment. patients sent to hotels to free beds for covid care — an exclusive by the guardian. a home in

hotel plan as it's being called. just talk us through it. so the guardian has seen some documents that have said in order to deal with the very big pressure on capacity and certain hospitals, there is the possibility that they might move patients who might otherwise be left ina patients who might otherwise be left in a hospital bed and oversee them as they are recovering into a hospital instead, where they might use volunteer groups and rely more on families to cheque in on these patients, so it would be something in between being in hospital and staying home. these are obviously extraordinary measures, and that's is because of the concern that in the coming weeks, we will see more hospitalisations due to infection rates being where they are, because we know there is the lag between qovu infections and covid hospitalisations. extremely worrying on the one hand, but there is something quite innovative about this, but you would hope that if

volunteer groups were able to handle the patient ever going into hotel, at least they would have some oversight. but no doubt these are very desperate times, and the policy reflects that. that's the point of it, only one hotel group has taken some patients in. what struck me most about the storey is that care homes as well will be asked to take patients, because they've already said they don't want to have hospital patients, and the guardian reports that this will be without a cove test, but only 1a days of quarantine without symptoms. yes, and there was quite rightly a scandal during the first lockdown when elderly people were being rushed out of hospitals into care homes without the proper testing or any testing at all, very often, and carrying infections with them. and i think everybody would be very concerned if there is even the slightest risk of that happening again. now these are post covid

patients, as i understand, so people who have been infected will presumably not be infectious. but nobody is absolutely certain about that, so i think people will be extremely cautious about the idea of asking care homes to accept them back into care homes having been treated for qovu without the test to be absolutely certain that they are not putting residents in the homes at risk —— not putting residents in the homes at risk -- qovu. the families will be expected to play a much bigger role in looking after sick relatives much sooner than they would've done. let's look at the storey underneath that, "depression and anxiety rife among i see you medics." 0ne that, "depression and anxiety rife among i see you medics." one is struck continuously by the people they have to witness in their last stages of life die, especially if their consultants. 50% of intensive

ca re their consultants. 50% of intensive care staff mainly helps. this is a poll looking at nhs doctors, nurses and clinical workers, and it's found that roughly 45% of the 700 people polled report more severe anxiety and depression than before. and as you said, this highlights the extreme circumstances they find themselves in. these are difficult times, we have significantly better treatments for covid—19 then we did in march, and for many people that will quite literally be a saving grace. but there is no cure for this disease, our best way out of it is a vaccine. there's only so much that can be done. so a lot of doctors and nurses are democrat nurses are in a tough situation, but most will simply not be able to do enough, and that's taking a huge toll on their mental health. this is something doctors and nurses will go through all the time, but the scale of it is

so extreme, and that's what this poll is highlighting. the psychological toll — it's notjust that you're losing patient after patient, but it might be triggering memories you have because you are seeing families distraught at the loss of one of their family members. yes, extraordinary pressure on medical staff that simply cannot be underestimated. we were talking just now about the pressure on beds, but it's the pressure on staff that i think is even more — because you can find new beds, hotels are empty because people aren't allowed to stay on them. you can find beds, but you can't find trained staff and people of this calibre to be able to be in hospitals and carry on treating patients. ithink be in hospitals and carry on treating patients. i think it's significant that the report suggests some of those responding to the survey report that they are suffering worse than combat troops on the battlefield. i don't think that's hyperbole, i think it's perfectly possible that is the case. but it's also significant if you

look at the figures, this polling was done in june look at the figures, this polling was done injune and july of last year, six months ago — think of the additional pressures all those nhs staff have been under since then. and i think this is probably only scratching the surface of the severity of the health crisis being faced by our health workers themselves. and this will take many months to philtre through as well, considering we aren't even at the peak unfortunately considering we aren't even at the pea k u nfortu nately yet of considering we aren't even at the peak unfortunately yet of this pandemic potentially. let's go to the telegraph, a big picture there of donald trump down in texas, the rio grande, alamo, talking about his triumph of the wool — not a storey we will look at in detail at the moment, but the vaccine storey beneath it. "gps leading the way in vaccine roll—out are first to slow down." the criticism of the strategy here is that they are robbing peter to pay paul. so they are having to

ebb and flow of the supplies of the vaccine. we are expecting the regional breakdown of the vaccine to come out tomorrow, and we are expecting to see disparities. what the storey it points to is that some gp surgeries and vaccine centres may be asked to pause, they may have the capacity to vaccinate and they may have people ready to go, but they wa nt to have people ready to go, but they want to make sure the vaccine is being delivered across the uk to the most vulnerable, those who work and ca re most vulnerable, those who work and care homes, and the 80 plus category before places that may have that group of people much better in control to start dishing out to minority groups. a lot of people will assume based on very good reasons, areas where you see more discrepancy like the southeast in the north, it's actually london where it's delivery may need to be accelerated, the regions that are thought to be performing the best are north yorkshire. it's interesting to find out which areas

have not been able to get the vaccine as well as others, and which areas that are highly performing or doing right, because the pressure is on for boris johnson doing right, because the pressure is on for borisjohnson now to meet that target for mid february, to have this priority group vaccinated so we can start to think about listing some of the restrictions if they don't meet that target. everyone is staying at home to protect the nhs, saving lives, and they'll know that every additional day they're asked to do that is the day they're asked to do that is the day they're asked to do that is the day the government has failed on those targets. so all eyes are on the vaccine race. what you think? if you compare the uk to the rest of the world, we are doing very well on the world, we are doing very well on the vaccine roll—out. i think israel is first per population, bahrain, then we are third. we are doing extreme well compared to other countries, but of course you can never be complacent about that and re st never be complacent about that and rest on your laurels. and i think quite rightly, ministers are pushing and pushing for the rate of vaccination to be accelerated wherever possible, even if that

means going in some cases to a 24 hour access for vaccination centres. the process of distribution around the country is actually very significant. we've all heard storeys in the past long before covid was heard of about postcode lottery and where you live determining the quality of care that you receive. but in this case, it's notjust about statistics. it's easy to look at statistics, and they are important. but just imagine at statistics, and they are important. butjust imagine the storeys that will happen if at a doctor's surgery, they could have given the vaccine to somebody, and that person tragically falls sick and even dies when they could have had the vaccine because it was there and available, but somebody at whitehall was telling them that that vaccine had to be delivered to a different part of the country. it's about people, not just different part of the country. it's about people, notjust figures. different part of the country. it's about people, notjust figuresm is, but also the different types of vaccine, as well, because the mr ones, the pfizer, it needs to be

stored at a temperature that won't be as easy for gp surgeries to administer — in fact, i don't think they even can, they'll have to go for the astrazeneca one which can be keptin for the astrazeneca one which can be kept ina for the astrazeneca one which can be kept in a normal fridge. that's absolutely right, and the astrazeneca one, the oxford developed a one is by far the easiest to transport around the country, and therefore by far the easiest to move from areas where they have plenty of it to areas where they aren't sufficient. the pfizer one is much more difficult to transport, and therefore it really has to be administered within hospitals. and i would've thought that once it was delivered to those hospitals, that's where it has to stay, and if it's there, it should end up in somebody's arm as quickly as possible. onto the financial times, "johnson clashed with chiefs about the vaccine roll—out." number ten has dismissed the storey is com pletely ten has dismissed the storey is completely untrue, but the ft is

sticking with it sources. this is a an argument where it looks like both sides are trying to play it down from number ten and the chief said the nhs. there has been some disagreement as to how proactively the vaccine will be distributed, and what the ft is reporting is that number ten was pushing harderfor longer hours, for 24 hour service on the vaccine, and perhaps there was some pushback presumably around with the nhs thinks they can deliver what's a realistic deadline. but what's a realistic deadline. but what's become clear in recent days as there seems to be, regardless of whether this was a huge row or a bit ofa whether this was a huge row or a bit of a disagreement, they do seem to have come down on the side of trying to get the vaccine out as quickly as possible. i wouldn't say it was a u—turn because it was never really decided, but there was talk about how they wouldn't be disturbing vaccine after hours, now they're looking into doing that. perhaps some of these centres they've built

will be 24 hours a day, seven days a