Just like everyone else, we sports journalists are being kept busy on Zoom

Coaches are keeping their players in tip-top shape while we interview people from our couches, writes Ben Burrows

Jose Mourinho broke lockdown to train one of his Spurs players (PA)

Cast your mind back a few short months and many wouldn’t even know what Zoom was. Now the online conference call client has become as integral to daily life as your toothbrush or coffee mug.

For many work teams, there are even Zoom beers to look forward to at the end of each week.

Sport is not immune either. The Premier League’s 20 member clubs are regularly conference calling each other as they plot a course out of the pandemic. England cricket captains Joe Root and Eoin Morgan have already kept those bored hacks among us out of trouble with interviews from the comfort of their lounges. Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho is making sure his squad are still in tip-top shape with virtual training sessions (when he’s not breaking government guidelines himself, of course).