Tottenham Hotspur trio Sergio Reguilon, Erik Lamela and Giovani Lo Celso as well as West Ham United's Manuel Lanzini broke the government's COVID-19 regulations by spending Christmas Day together.
The UK government ruled that households in London were not allowed to mix on Christmas Day because of rising cases of COVID-19 in the capital city, whereas those in less-hit areas were permitted to form bubbles of no more than three households to celebrate the day.
Here are several Spurs players with their families plus Manuel Lanzini celebrating Christmas in Tier 4.
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Don’t think that’s allowed, lads. pic.twitter.com/Pr77eChUSG
The four London-based players were therefore forbidden from spending Christmas outside their own home, but reports including from the Daily Mail note that the quartet were pictured together despite the rules stating they must not mix.
An image, which was posted on Instagram by a friend who has since made their profile private, sees no less than 18 people mixing with no social distancing.
Lanzini posted a picture of his own household on Christmas Day in which he can be seen in the same room - believed to be Lo Celso's house - and wearing the same outfit as the group image.