Adidas app and Leeds United approved weighing scales - Patrick Bamford reveals work-from-home regime amid coronavirus uncertainty

The striker, speaking on Five Live's Monday Night Club yesterday, said football's significance paled in comparison to the situation the world is facing currently due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a series of strict new measures last night to restrict movement in an attempt to keep more people in their homes and slow the spread of the virus in the UK.

Bamford and his Leeds' team-mates were already been living in a state of self-isolation.

"I'm fine to be honest, fortunately I haven't contracted, well I don't know if I have but I don't think I have, I've been fine," he said.

"I've been at home for the last 10 days. I've nipped out to get food shopping, doing our programme at home, running around in the hills outside the house. But in terms of meeting people, it's been 10 days with no real contact."

It's just two and a half weeks since Bamford last played, and scored, for Leeds in their 2-0 Elland Road win over Huddersfield Town but the world he finds himself in is a very different place.

He receives a fitness programme each night from the club, completes it at home the next day and sends pictures of the reading on his club-prescribed weighing scales. Our normal way of life may have stopped but accountability, when it comes to conditioning at Leeds United, has not.

They monitor the players' running stats with the Adidas app and according to the club's top scorer, attempting to keep the level of work high will stand them in good stead.

"I think it's more of a seasonal workload," he said.

"Day by day it's roughly what you would do in a training session, completing 5km or 4km one day. Obviously it's not quite the same, you're not doing the change of direction or the intensity but we're doing as much as we can load wise to keep at a level that will help us when we do finally go back.

"I also feel that when you take your foot off the pedal you kind of start feeling all the niggles and aches sometimes you haven't felt when you were motoring through it. Keeping the workload as high as possible whilst, obviously you're running on roads most of the time so you've got to be careful there, trying to stay at that level is probably better for us in the long term so when we do go back we don't get hit all of a sudden, almost like another pre-season."

Staying in shape isn't the hard part, for Bamford. It's the not knowing when he'll actually have to be 'match fit' again or when he might get the chance to fire Championship-leading Leeds to the Premier League. He does point out, however, that there are more pressing issues at hand for society in general.

"The club have been brilliant, we get sent a programme every night and we have to complete it the following day but we don't know what we're aiming for at the minute, we don't know when we're going to be back," he said.

"You're gearing yourself up but you don't know when for.

"I feel like the uncertainty is probably what is making it hard. It does cross my mind every day what's going to happen. We put in so much work not only this year but last year to get to where we are now. If you look at the bigger picture, football is just a small part of the world and at the minute the significance of football is not that great compared to what is going on. Selfishly you're thinking about when am I going to get back playing but then you're also thinking hang on a minute, there's people's lives at stake here. Whether we get back playing in a month, three months, four months, who knows? We've just got to put it to one side and think about the world being everyone in the world."