A group of Tottenham players had been exposed to a virus before arriving at a hotel where they ate a meal later blamed for their illness, it was announced today.

Tests have cleared a hotel kitchen of food poisoning after a group of Tottenham players were taken ill, it was announced today.

Tottenham have revealed initial tests by the UK Health Protection Agency into the suspected food poisoning outbreak are inconclusive, despite the discovery of a virus in one of the affected players.