"That game should have been called off,
"There's no doubt in my mind. It was dangerous for the players who played in terms of the injuries, the U23s played yesterday.
"The team was changing by the hour and I can't help but be angry and frustrated. I'm not 100% sure who I should be angry at because i had to control the controllables and focus on the ones who could play.
"I don't think we got any help or clarity from the EFL.
"It was very difficult to make a decision to make on safety and I feel they've let us down.
"We asked the EFL for permission to postpone the game, and were told ‘If you postpone the game you will be up for sanction and you will be investigated'.
"There was then a lack of clarity on exactly what that investigation entails, and the threat of having to potentially forsake the game and give the three points up to Wimbledon, we weren’t willing to take.
"Don’t forget, it was all very quick and rushed. We’ve got our players’ safety to think of, and the safety of the players from Wimbledon as well as the staff.
"The truth is that we just don’t know how bad or good things are in terms of the best-case scenario or the worst-case scenario.
"There should be much better protocols in place. It’s frustrating. As a football club, we need a post mortem because we need to understand how one positive test can have such a catastrophic impact in terms of the numbers around it.
"There has been one external employee who has gone down around it – I won’t elaborate any more than that – so there’s effectively two positive tests, and that has expanded the reach zone even further."
"If the Bristol Rovers one is the same circumstance, then if they get off scot free, somehow we’ve been tucked up.
"If they get deducted the points, then this becomes a good point because we’ve played the game and hustled with players who aren’t fit.
"I can only stand and be honest. It’s a mixture of emotions that’s all flooding out, whereas before the game it was a steely focus on doing the job."
“Shutting the training ground has to be a consideration. It has to be.
"It'depends on how the tests come back.
"Obviously we know what happened at Newcastle, although the Premier League runs on very different protocols.
"The consistency of the testing, which was the same in the Championship, becomes an important part of it.
"Obviously the funding hasn’t been there, and that’s what I’m saying.
"The EFL won’t give you the funding to do the testing, but then at the same time, they won’t help you out when there’s a circumstance that happens.
"It’s almost like we’ve been punished for doing the right protocols.
"That’s how it feels. I’m saying, ‘If you’re going to make us play, then the ones that weren’t Covid-positive should be allowed to play’.
"The ones that have been left out by association. That for me is the most frustrating bit.
"To get the three points in this game, we’d have been better off telling people to pretend they were 30 yards away from people.
"But we haven’t. We’ve done it properly, but then we haven’t been helped out."
Sunderland are now waiting for tests on the players who are self-isolating, but Johnson wants his entire squad tested before making a decision over the Shrewsbury game.
"I don't know 100 per cent," he said of who might be missing at the weekend.
"My guess would be the six or seven, they've been tested so it will depend on that in the first sense.
"Beyond that, I think it's wise to probably test anyone but I'm not a doctor.
"Then we'll have to see.
"No one is hiding from performing in matches, but it's got to be safe for both teams. "
istm It's the club's responsibility to call the game off, and he's saying it should have been called off, so he's blaming his club. It sounds like the EFL are not taking as much responsibility as they might, though.